US BIRTHS · 1880–2025

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NAMES LIKE RICHARD

Same rise and fall as Richard, around the same years.

WHERE RICHARD IS POPULAR · 2024

In 2024, Richard ranked highest in Alaska (#142) and lowest in Kansas (#786). 3 states had fewer than 5 babies with the name, too few to list.

TOP 1011–5051–200200+UNDER 5 BABIES

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Richard name popularity

Richard has been given to 2,587,082 babies in the United States since 1880.

It peaked in 1946, when 58,990 babies got the name, and its best rank was #6 in 1934.

In 2025, 1,505 babies were named Richard (#450 in the country), 97% below the peak. That is down 44% from 2015.

Almost every Richard is a boy.

An estimated 1.6M people named Richard are alive in the US today, with a median age of 66.

It was a top-100 name in 114 of the 146 years on record.

HOW IT WORKS

The chart is the number of US babies given the name each year, from the Social Security Administration’s public baby-name files (names given to 5+ babies in a year). The “all-time high” is the name’s biggest year. “Holders” and “median holder age” are rough estimates that apply average US survival rates to each birth year, so they ignore immigration and name changes.

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