Ripken
#3,568 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ripken has been given to 435 babies in the U.S. since 1997. In 2025 it ranked #3,568 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 47 recorded.
Babies named Ripken, 2025
1 in 104,000
Ripken over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Ripken?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 104,000
- 32 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 53,400
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #3,568
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 71,810 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ripken sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 71,810 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ripken. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ripkens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ripken was born before 2020 — so the typical Ripken is around 5 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 54.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 97.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 435
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 54.0% of all recorded uses (235).
Is Ripken 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
- −63
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −94
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +2,364
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.13×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 68.1%
- Peak was 2022 (47)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 19.0% average annual change
Spellings of Ripken
Ripken is not the most common spelling — Rickey is, with 94.7% against Ripken's 0.67%.
Where Ripken is used
Across 1910–2025, Ripken was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 840,173 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
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. Ripken has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Ripken by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Ripken
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ripken
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.