girls:
13 births since 2022
#5703 (0th percentile)
boys:
6.8k births since 1948
#1427 (69th percentile)
overall:
6.8k births since 1948
#3265 (58th percentile)
The name Ridge is the #3,265 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,771 recorded births since 1948. This represents the 57.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 57.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,427 (68.9% percentile) for all time with 6,758 births since 1948. For girls, it ranks #5,703 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 13 births since 2022.
Ridge first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1948 (1948 for boys and 2022 for girls). Birth data for Ridge is available in 44 out of the 76 years between 1948 and 2023 (44 years for boys and 1 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Ridge has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Ridge reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 50.9% percentile (ranked #448) with 327 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 327 births per million (ranked 50.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2008, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Ridge is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #448 (50.9% percentile) with 327 births per million.
For girls, Ridge reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #950) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ridge".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Ridge is pronounced as rihj, which has 1 syllables.
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