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Riddhi vs Ridgely

American parents have registered 663 Riddhis since 1880, against 134 Ridgelys. Riddhi is still ahead, with 22 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Riddhi against Ridgely, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Riddhi Ridgely

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

Of the 43 years in which either name was published, Riddhi for 36 years and Ridgely for 7 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Riddhi Ridgely
Total US births 663134
Most in one year 3410
Babies in 2025 22under 5
Estimated living today 660120
Median age today 158
Peak year 20072023
Best rank 4,380th girls7,738th boys
Rank in 2025 5,554thunranked
First recorded 19891946
Girls / boys 663 / 028 / 106

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 Ridgelys are over 8. That is 7 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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