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“Woodland clearing of the Hrype tribe” — Old English origin
Girl's name · #1032 in the US (2025) · Trending
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. It is also an American family name — about 9,300 people carry it as a surname, according to US census data. About 63% of babies named Ripley in recent years have been girls.
Around the world: about 1 in 6,000 girls in Scotland (2025) · about 1 in 7,700 girls in Canada (2024) · about 1 in 17,000 girls in England & Wales (2025).
Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 24 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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