Ripley

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Ripley: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Ripley: Recorded since 1996, it reached #1,490 in 2018, and it stood at #1,951 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
41times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#1490highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3126
1999	#3225
2001	#3998
2002	#2868
2003	#4373
2005	#3382
2006	#4157
2007	#2410
2009	#3422
2010	#5707
2011	#3549
2012	#2969
2013	#5742
2014	#2659
2015	#2070
2016	#2233
2017	#2090
2018	#1490
2019	#1634
2020	#1618
2021	#1505
2022	#1621
2023	#1705
2024	#2000

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 24 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #3126 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #1490 among girls in England and Wales, in 2018 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2000 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Ripley appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 24 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 236 births with the name.

Ripley across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Ripley's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3126 (1996)	#1490 (2018)	#2000 (2024)	24 of 29	236 (1996–2024)	21 (2018)
England and Wales · Boys	#3225 (2002)	#1951 (2024)	#1951 (2024)	17 of 23	92 (2002–2024)	12 (2024)

Ripley by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Ripley in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	8	2 of 10	4
2000s	35	7 of 10	5
2010s	106	10 of 10	11
2020sbusiest	87	5 of 10	17

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 17 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Ripley appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1490 in England and Wales in 2018.

Ripley's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#2000	14	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#1951	12	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1705	17	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#2546	8	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1621	18	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#4789	3	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1505	20	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#2730	7	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1618	18	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1634	18	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3411	5	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1490	21	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#3959	4	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2090	13	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#4812	3	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2233	12	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#3079	6	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2070	13	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3908	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2659	9	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#5742	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#3315	5	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2969	8	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#3549	6	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#3830	4	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#5707	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3422	6	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#3744	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#2276	8	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2410	9	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#2435	7	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#4157	4	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3382	5	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#3208	4	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#2578	5	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#4373	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2868	5	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#3225	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3998	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3225	4	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3126	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 26 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #1,490, first reached in 2018.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 21 births, registered in England and Wales in 2018.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Niccolo · #1492, 24y
Noam · #1494, 28y
Radley · #1486, 21y
Shrey · #1486, 26y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Lavender · #1491, 14y
Motty · #1492, 17y
Niccolo · #1492, 24y
Noam · #1494, 28y

Ripley and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Ripley without appearing here.

Ripley moved ahead of

Jayden Compare
In 2017 they stood at #5742 and #3536 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1490 and #5666.
Lynette Compare
In 2017 they stood at #5742 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1490 and #5666.
Yvonne Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2090 and #2090 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1490 and #5666.
Finn Compare
In 2014 they stood at #5742 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #2070 and #5730.

Moved ahead of Ripley

Matheo Compare
In 2021 they stood at #2730 and #3017 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #4789 and #2018.
Frida Compare
In 2002 they stood at #2868 and #3409 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2003 that had become #4373 and #2727.
Rune Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3959 and #4749 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #3411 and #2104.
Aksel Compare
In 2008 they stood at #2276 and #3158 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2009 that had become #3744 and #2837.

Moved the opposite way to Ripley

Kristin Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Ripley went from #3126 to #1705 while Kristin went from #1434 to #5687.
Therese Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Ripley went from #3126 to #1705 while Therese went from #2096 to #4709.
Tracey Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Ripley went from #3126 to #1705 while Tracey went from #783 to #5687.
Carol Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Ripley went from #3126 to #1505 while Carol went from #802 to #3519.

Moved the same way as Ripley

Harper Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ripley went from #3998 to #2000 and Harper from #3262 to #22.
Brent Compare
Between 2002 and 2022 in England and Wales · Boys, Ripley went from #3225 to #4789 and Brent from #1322 to #3449.
Ole Compare
Between 2002 and 2022 in England and Wales · Boys, Ripley went from #3225 to #4789 and Ole from #1253 to #4789.
Eabha Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ripley went from #4157 to #2000 and Eabha from #5061 to #1262.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1490 in England and Wales in 2018. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Ripley

Ripley at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Ripley across 2 official records

Ripley by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Ripley appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Ripley and the names beside it

Ripley moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Ripley

Moved the opposite way to Ripley

Moved the same way as Ripley

Ripley at a glance

Ripley across 2 official records

Ripley by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Ripley appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Ripley and the names beside it

Ripley moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Ripley

Moved the opposite way to Ripley

Moved the same way as Ripley