Ripley
A unisex name of Old English origin, meaning from the strip-shaped clearing.
Ripley by the numbers
In 2025, 15 babies in England and Wales were named Ripley. In the US, 168 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in the US than in England and Wales.
Its best year in America so far is the most recent one on record, which means it was still climbing when the records end.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Ripley. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Rileyvaliant; rye clearing7,797 in the US (2017)
- Rigley20 in the US (2017)
- Ryleyrye clearing; a form of Riley120 in the US (2017)
- Rickeypowerful ruler; a form of Richard86 in the US (2017)
- Rhileyvaliant; rye clearing; an altered spelling of Riley55 in the US (2017)
- Reileycourageous one; a form of Riley12 in the US (2017)
Other names that mean a meadow or field
Like Ripley, each of these has a meadow or field in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Savannahgrassy plain; treeless plain5,231 in the US (2017)
- Braydenbroad valley; a modern respelling of Braden5,153 in the US (2017)
- Kinsleyfrom the king's meadow; an English place name used as given name4,048 in the US (2017)
- Bentleymeadow of bent grass3,945 in the US (2017)
- Haileyhay meadow; form of Hayley3,691 in the US (2017)
- Haydenvalley with hay3,623 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Ripley
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