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Riddhi vs Ridge

American parents have registered 7,911 Ridges since 1880, against 663 Riddhis. Ridge is still ahead, with 571 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Riddhi Ridge

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 2007, when Riddhi had 34 and Ridge had 90.

Side by side

  Riddhi Ridge
Total US births 6637,911
Most in one year 34599
Babies in 2025 22571
Estimated living today 6607,800
Median age today 157
Peak year 20072023
Best rank 4,380th girls505th boys
Rank in 2025 5,554th529th
First recorded 19891948
Girls / boys 663 / 018 / 7,893

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 Riddhis alive today are over 15; half the Ridges are over 7. That is 8 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: Riddhi and Ridge.