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Ripley

Pronounced /ˈɹɪpli/

Rank in 2024
#1,245
Born in 2024
186
Peak year
2022 · #1166
Origin
Not recorded

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 186 girls were named Ripley, about 1 in every 8,673.
  • It peaked in 2022 with 207 babies, ranked #1166.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1988.
  • 2,309 girls have been named Ripley since 1880.

Who else has this name

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

  1. 0
    Greatest
  2. 0
    Silent
  3. 0
    Boomers
  4. 0
    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
  6. <0.1
    Gen Z
  7. <0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen X: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Millennials: 54 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen Z: 445 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,810 babies, 0.09 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From the Old English folk name for the Anglian tribe, *Hrype + Old English lēah (“woodland clearing”).

  • A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
  • A female given name transferred from the surname.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/ˈɹɪpli/

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