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Ridhi vs Ridley

American parents have registered 2,892 Ridleys since 1880, against 545 Ridhis. Ridley is still ahead, with 166 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ridhi against Ridley, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ridhi Ridley

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

Ridley has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1915 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1999, when Ridhi had 6 and Ridley had 6.

Side by side

  Ridhi Ridley
Total US births 5452,892
Most in one year 39213
Babies in 2025 21166
Estimated living today 5402,800
Median age today 107
Peak year 20172021
Best rank 3,848th girls1,750th boys
Rank in 2025 5,722nd2,077th
First recorded 19941915
Girls / boys 545 / 01,364 / 1,528

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 Ridhis alive today are over 10; half the Ridleys are over 7. That is 3 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Ridhi Ridley
England and Wales 135253

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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