Ransom

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Ransom is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 101 births. Its best rank was 464th, in 1882.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 1010.01% of boys
Peak year: 2022111 births
Best rank: #464in 1882
Since 1880: 4,761people given the name

Babies named Ransom, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

4,761 boys have been named Ransom in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2022, with 111 births.

This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1980, and the 2010s alone account for 19%. It has spent 36 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Ransom
1880s	115
1890s	114
1900s	100
1910s	376
1920s	423
1930s	312
1940s	312
1950s	274
1960s	200
1970s	147
1980s	217
1990s	310
2000s	455
2010s	885
2020s	521

In 2022, its biggest year

Ransom was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2022 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, James and Elijah. See all of 2022.

Names that rose and fell with Ransom

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.