Ransom
The boy's name Ransom has been in the national records since 1880, with 4,869 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 1,688th. About 3,100 Ransoms are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 16.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Ransom boys named Ransom
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 4,869
- Estimated living today
- 3,100
- Median age today
- 16
- Peak year
- 2022
- Best rank
- 1,589th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,688th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 10 / 4,859
How old the living Ransoms are
born that year still alive today
Of the 4,869 babies given the name since 1880, about 3,100 are alive — 64 in every hundred. Roughly 1,600 of them are children and 380 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2009 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Ransoms
- Ransom Riggs (born 1979)American writer and filmmaker
- Ransom E. Olds (1864–1950)American businessman
People named Ransom with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Ransom is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Ransom is most concentrated in North Carolina (9.0×), Texas (3.7×), Tennessee (2.9×), South Carolina (2.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2022
The most popular boys’ names the year Ransom peaked:
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Ransom against another name
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.