Ransom
2025 SSA
Below 5 births
About Ransom
Ransom may be rakish and handsome, but it carries an unavoidable association with holding someone for ransom. But that kind of bad boy image might be exactly what attracts you to Ransom in the first place.
While Ransom feels like a modern appellation ala Breaker or Ranger, it's interesting to note on the popularity chart that it was actually quite popular at the end of the 19th century but fell off the Top 1000 around 1930.
Ransom is also given to girls.
Pronounced RAN-sum.
As of October 2026, Ransom ranked #1695 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #464 in 1882.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #1,664 | 93 | 48.4 |
| 2015 | #1,576 | 103 | 53.7 |
| 2016 | #1,530 | 110 | 58 |
| 2017 | #1,609 | 100 | 54 |
| 2018 | #1,914 | 78 | 42.9 |
| 2019 | #1,993 | 74 | 41.2 |
| 2020 | #1,597 | 102 | 59.1 |
| 2021 | #1,642 | 102 | 58.3 |
| 2022 | #1,594 | 111 | 63.6 |
| 2023 | #1,645 | 105 | 61.4 |
| 2024 | #1,668 | 101 | 58.6 |
| 2025 | #1,695 | 97 | 56.8 |
World rankings
Ransom for boys
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Ransom on lists
Famous Ransoms
- Ransom RiggsBoy
American novelist
- Ransom Eli OldsBoy
American automaker; founder of Oldsmobile
- Ransom Aldrich "Ram" MyersBoy
American biologist
- Ransom Asa MooreBoy
American agronomist
- Ransom WilsonBoy
American flutist
- Ransom AshleyBoy
photographer and actor
- Stewart Ransom "Rhett" MillerBoy
lead singer of American band The Old 97s
- Bodhi Ransom GreenBoy
son of American actors Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green
- Cody RansomBoy
American baseball player
- Terrell Louis RansomBoy
Jr., American actor
Ransom in pop culture
- Elwin RansomBoy
main character in the "Space Trilogy" by C.S. Lewis
- Ransom StoddardBoy
character in "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"
- Justin "Ransom" OluransiBoy
character in the web comic "Check, Please!"
- Hugh Ransom DrysdaleBoy
known as Ransom, from the film "Knives Out"