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Rider vs Ridley

American parents have registered 2,892 Ridleys since 1880, against 1,293 Riders. Ridley is still ahead, with 166 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Rider against Ridley, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Rider Ridley

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 59 years in which either name was published, Ridley for 43 years and Rider for 16 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Rider Ridley
Total US births 1,2932,892
Most in one year 71213
Babies in 2025 30166
Estimated living today 1,3002,800
Median age today 147
Peak year 20142021
Best rank 2,000th boys1,750th boys
Rank in 2025 3,658th2,077th
First recorded 19931915
Girls / boys 0 / 1,2931,364 / 1,528

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Riders alive today are over 14; half the Ridleys are over 7. That is 7 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Rider and Ridley.