Ridley is from the Old English hrēod-lēah (reed meadow, clearing of reeds). Daisy Ridley (born 1992) — English actress; played Rey on Disney's Star Wars sequel trilogy (The Force Awakens 2015, The Last Jedi 2017, The Rise of Skywalker 2019); the trilogy grossed $4.4 billion combined worldwide; Ridley's casting was one of the most-discussed franchise decisions of the 2010s; Murder on the Orient Express (2017) opposite Kenneth Branagh; Chaos Walking (2021) opposite Tom Holland. Bishop Nicholas Ridley (c. Ridley Park, PA — Philadelphia suburb. Ridley Roper — American competitive cheerleader.
Ridley does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ridley reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.