Ripley

Boy · recorded 1918–2025 · given to both girls and boys (about 1.6 to 1)

  • #1,263in 2025
  • 1 in 10,949boys in 2025
  • +484%last ten years
  • 2.2×in Ohio

2025 was its biggest year ever, up 484% in ten years.

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Meaning

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Its story

Popularity since 1918

0469119181945197219982025

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Per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births are not in the record, so the line breaks rather than dropping to zero.
See the 37 recorded years as a table
Ripley, per million boys born. Years absent from the table had fewer than five births.
YearPer million
19186
19205
19245
19265
19434
19503
19523
19553
19574
19584
19844
19913
19923
20013
20034
20047
20058
20065
20075
20085
20097
20104
20115
20126
20138
201411
201516
201614
201714
201812
201923
202038
202143
202262
202369
202478
202591

Where it’s loved

Most popular in these states

Compared with the country as a whole, pooled over 2023–2025.

  1. Ohio 2.2×

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The numbers

Every figure

Births in 2025
156
Rank in 2025
#1,263
How rare
1 in 10,949 boys
Since 1918
1,035

Most popular in 2025, at 91 per million boys born.

Over the ten years to 2025 it has risen by 484% per million boys born.

Top 1 states by concentration, pooled over 2023–2025
StateTimes the national rateBirths pooled
Ohio2.2×27

Figures from the US Social Security Administration’s 2025 release. How these numbers are made.