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Ripp vs Ripton

American parents have registered 598 Ripps since 1880, against 50 Riptons. Ripp is still ahead, with 51 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ripp against Ripton, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ripp Ripton

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

Ripp has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 2019 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Ripp had 51 and Ripton had 10.

Side by side

  Ripp Ripton
Total US births 59850
Most in one year 13414
Babies in 2025 5110
Estimated living today 59050
Median age today 33
Peak year 20222021
Best rank 1,388th boys6,032nd boys
Rank in 2025 2,572nd7,679th
First recorded 20192021
Girls / boys 0 / 5980 / 50

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.

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