Ridgley
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɹɪdʒɫi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ridgley is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 160K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 7.1M
- THThailand≈1 in 51Mas ริดจ์ลี่ย์
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ridgley itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 14 (measured from records)
- 1 in 160K (inferred from the name graph)
2,074 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ridgley counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 2,074 | 1 in 160K | 2.1K | Ridgley | 5 |
| ES Spain | 7 | 1 in 7.1M | 7 | — | — |
| TH Thailand | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 51M | #542,280 | Ridgley | 14 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | 836 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | — | — | listed | — | — |
2,074 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Henry Ridgleyb. 1635GB(died 1710)
- Thomas Ridgleyb. 1667English Independent minister and tutor
- William Ridgleyb. 1882USAmerican trombonist (1882-1961)
- Daisy Ridgleyb. 1909GBBritish track and field athlete
- Tommy Ridgleyb. 1925USAmerican R&B singer and bandleader (1925–1999)
- Sammy Ridgleyb. 1943USmusical artist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.1K | #14,409 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.9K | #14,283 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.9K | #15,162 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 836 | #7,619 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 7 | #143,513 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Ridgley?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɹɪdʒɫi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Ridgley have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.1 thousand people named Ridgley, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ridgley.
- Where is Ridgley most common?
- Ridgley is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 160 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ridgley?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,074 people named Ridgley in 2010, about 1 in 160 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Ridgley?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ridgleyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ridgley”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.