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Ripley

Girl's name · #1032 in the US (2025) · Trending

63% girls · 37% boys — Ripley is also given to boys: 156 in 2025, about 37% in recent years. Ripley →

Popularity over time

Ripley is climbing: on the charts since 1988, it reached #1032 in 2025 — its strongest showing yet, with about 240 girls given the name last year. Roughly 2,600 have carried it all-time.

Across the states

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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 24 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

See how Ripley ranks in other countries and regions.

#992 in Scotland (2025) · #1,986 in England & Wales (2025) · #1,336 in Canada (2024).

Famous Ripleys

• Ripley Parker — British writer
• Ripley Rader — American fashion designer

As a surname

It is also an American family name — about 9,300 people carried it as a surname in the 2010 census.

• Robert Ripley — American cartoonist (1890–1949)
• Dorothy Ripley — British missionary
• Alexandra Ripley — American writer (1934–2004)

In stories & tradition

• Ripley Lennox — Hollyoaks (TV series)
• Ripley — Papa Louie (video game series)

Similar names: Hartley · Rivky · Tilly · Sterling · Colbie · Emeri

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