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Ridge vs Ridhi

American parents have registered 7,911 Ridges since 1880, against 545 Ridhis. Ridge is still ahead, with 571 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ridge against Ridhi, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ridge Ridhi

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

Ridge has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1948 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2011, when Ridge had 122 and Ridhi had 26.

Side by side

  Ridge Ridhi
Total US births 7,911545
Most in one year 59939
Babies in 2025 57121
Estimated living today 7,800540
Median age today 710
Peak year 20232017
Best rank 505th boys3,848th girls
Rank in 2025 529th5,722nd
First recorded 19481994
Girls / boys 18 / 7,893545 / 0

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 Ridhis alive today are over 10; half the Ridges are over 7. That is 3 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: Ridge and Ridhi.