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Ransom

Rank in 2024
#1,661
Born in 2024
101
Peak year
2022 · #1588
Origin
Not recorded

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 101 boys were named Ransom, about 1 in every 16,983.
  • It peaked in 2022 with 111 babies, ranked #1588.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 4,761 boys have been named Ransom since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Ransom per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

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Greatest: 803 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Silent: 584 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Boomers: 504 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen X: 255 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Millennials: 390 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Z: 809 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,175 babies, 0.05 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

Wiktionary has no English entry for Ransom yet, so we don’t show a meaning rather than guess one.

From Wiktionary’s entry for Ransom, CC BY-SA 4.0.