Ransom

Meaning of Ransom

Ransom storms onto the scene like a knight on a quick-striding caballo, name gleaming with the promise of freedom; it began as an English surname meaning “son of Rand” yet also echoes the Old French raunsoun and Latin redemptio, the very price of release, the shout of libertas! He carries storybook swagger—think Dr. Elwin Ransom in C. S. Lewis’s cosmic tales, automobile pioneer Ransom E. Olds revving up the first Oldsmobile, even a few bold cowboys slinging charm across dusty sunsets. The sound is brisk—RAN-suhm—crisp as snapping sails, and parents love that outlaw-hero vibe that never really goes out of style. In the charts he’s a slow-burn comet, glowing for more than a century, dipping and soaring yet never fading, proof that spirited names with rescue in their bones always find their way home.