Name meaning & stats
Ransom
Ransom. 3,429 US babies since 1940, peak 2022.
What it means
No agreed meaning on record
In US birth records
Peak year: 2022
3,429 US babies were named Ransom between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Ransom (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Name twins (peaked around 2022)