girls:
28 births since 2006
#5688 (0th percentile)
boys:
100 births since 1946
#4486 (2nd percentile)
overall:
128 births since 1946
#7611 (2nd percentile)
The name Ridgely is the #7,611 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 128 recorded births since 1946. This represents the 1.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,486 (2.1% percentile) for all time with 100 births since 1946. For girls, it ranks #5,688 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 28 births since 2006.
Ridgely first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1946 (1946 for boys and 2006 for girls). Birth data for Ridgely is available in 19 out of the 78 years between 1946 and 2023 (15 years for boys and 4 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 Ridgely has been given predominantly to boys, with 78.1% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Ridgely were boys.
For boys, Ridgely reached its peak popularity in 1951, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #604) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Ridgely is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #906 (0.5% percentile) with 5 births per million.
For girls, Ridgely reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #945) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ridgely".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Ridgely is pronounced as RIHJ-lee, which has 2 syllables.
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