Rip
The boy's name Rip has been in the national records since 1938, with 688 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 2,332nd. About 640 Rips are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 4.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Rip
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 688
- Estimated living today
- 640
- Median age today
- 4
- Peak year
- 2021
- Best rank
- 1,565th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,332nd
- First recorded
- 1938
How old the living Rips are
born that year still alive today
Of the 688 babies given the name since 1938, about 640 are alive — 93 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2021 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.
Where the name comes from
Origin Dutch
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Rips
- Rip Torn (1931–2019)American actor
- Rip Taylor (1931–2019)American actor and comedian
People named Rip with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Rip is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Rip is most concentrated in Texas (6.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2021
The most popular boys’ names the year Rip peaked:
Related names
Rip against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.