Boy · #1688 in 2025

Ransom

Ransom: popularity and trends since 1880

Rank
#1688
Born 2025
97
Peak year
1890

Popularity, 1880–2025

per 100,000 boys born

Ransom per 100,000 boys born, by year. Peak: 1890. Gaps are years with fewer than five births, which SSA does not publish. Source: SSA, 1880–2025.

Recent trend

Ransom has been rising: its share of boys born has grown over the last 10 years. It now stands at 41% of its 1890 peak.

Sounds good with

Names of the other sex that are about as common right now, so two siblings' names do not sound a generation apart.