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Rip

#2,348 in 2025Boys' name

Diminutive of Ripley

Rip has been given to 688 babies in the U.S. since 1938. In 2025 it ranked #2,348 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 111 recorded.

Babies named Rip, 2025

1 in 56,200

Rip over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rip: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Ripley

Dutch

What Rip means

Rip is a diminutive of Ripley.

Origin, language, and formation

Rip is used in English. Its origins include Dutch.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ripley.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 688 boys were recorded with the name Rip between 1938 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 111 in 2021; its best national rank was #1,575 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,434 in 2020 to #2,348 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Rip?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 56,200
59 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 28,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,348
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
38,949 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rip sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 38,949 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rip. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rips were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rip was born before 2021 — so the typical Rip is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
68.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
72.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
675
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 68.6% of all recorded uses (472).

Is Rip rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−236
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+86
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
53.2%
Peak was 2021 (111)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
44.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,575
2021

Where Rip is used

Across 2016–2025, Rip was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in 14,286 boys, against 1 in 50,933 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in 100,000).

17 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oklahoma1 in 14,286
  2. 2Arkansas1 in 25,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 25,000
  4. 4Louisiana1 in 33,333
  5. 5Indiana1 in 50,000
  6. 6Missouri1 in 50,000
  7. 7California1 in 100,000
  8. 8Florida1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Rip around the world

Where Rip ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Canada
    2022–2022
    #2,959
    in 2022

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Rip by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,348
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 86
Best rank ever
#1,575
2021
Peak year
2021
111 that year
First recorded
1938
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
688
Count in 2025
59

Names similar to Rip

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

RippTripRipleyRipkenRiptonRipleeRippleyRipalRipperRipkin

Sibling names for Rip

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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