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How popular is “Ridley” in the USA?

Number of people named “Ridley” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Ridley” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Ridley” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Ridley” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Ridley” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Ridley” by birth year

This chart shows how “Ridley” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1915 8 0.000004366 8 -100%
1919 8 0.000003791 8 -100%
1921 6 0.00000257 6 -100%
1923 8 0.000003475 8 -100%
1926 5 0.000002178 5 -100%
1927 5 0.000002156 5 -100%
1928 5 0.000002211 5 -100%
1930 5 0.000002249 5 -100%
1931 6 0.000002851 6 -100%
1932 9 0.000004263 9 -100%
1933 6 0.000003001 6 -100%
1935 8 0.000003828 8 -100%
1936 6 0.000002888 6 -100%
1938 7 0.000003164 7 -100%
1941 7 0.000002873 7 -100%
1942 7 0.000002562 7 -100%
1945 5 0.000001885 5 -100%
1946 8 0.000002504 8 -100%
1947 5 0.000001388 5 -100%
1951 6 0.000001629 6 -100%
1954 6 0.000001507 6 -100%
1955 5 0.000001245 5 -100%
1956 6 0.000001455 6 -100%
1958 8 0.000001935 8 -100%
1986 5 0.000001406 5 -100%
1992 6 0.000001562 6 -100%
1993 6 0.000001591 6 -100%
1994 5 0.000001345 5 -100%
1995 5 0.000001365 5 -100%
1996 5 0.000001371 5 -100%
1999 6 0.000001624 6 -100%
2000 5 0.000001323 5 -100%
2001 13 0.000003473 13 -100%
2002 24 0.00000642 9 15 -25%
2003 31 0.000008153 10 21 -35%
2004 41 0.00001073 13 28 -37%
2005 32 0.000008323 12 20 -25%
2006 44 0.000011122 19 25 -14%
2007 35 0.000008755 12 23 -31%
2008 57 0.000014501 20 37 -30%
2009 61 0.000015968 20 41 -34%
2010 68 0.0000184 17 51 -50%
2011 65 0.00001777 26 39 -20%
2012 79 0.0000216 28 51 -29%
2013 98 0.000026881 33 65 -33%
2014 140 0.000037773 72 68 3%
2015 133 0.000035937 71 62 7%
2016 163 0.00004443 84 79 3%
2017 147 0.000041105 75 72 2%
2018 213 0.000060582 124 89 16%
2019 187 0.000053876 111 76 19%
2020 180 0.000053883 101 79 12%
2021 190 0.000056081 98 92 3%
2022 181 0.000053501 104 77 15%
2023 179 0.000054059 107 72 20%
2024 167 0.000050173 103 64 23%

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