girls:
713 births since 1942
#5003 (12th percentile)
boys:
144.7k births since 1888
#234 (95th percentile)
overall:
145.4k births since 1888
#515 (93rd percentile)
The name Ricardo is the #515 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 145,449 recorded births since 1888. This represents the 93.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 93.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #234 (94.9% percentile) for all time with 144,736 births since 1888. For girls, it ranks #5,003 (12.4% percentile) for all time with 713 births since 1942.
Ricardo first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1888 (1888 for boys and 1942 for girls). Birth data for Ricardo is available in 123 out of the 136 years between 1888 and 2023 (123 years for boys and 57 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Ricardo has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Ricardo reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 85.2% percentile (ranked #115) with 1,440 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 1,501 births per million (ranked 84.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1999, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Ricardo ranks #349 for boys (61.8% percentile) with 477 births per million, which is 31.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Ricardo reached its peak popularity in 1986, achieving the 2.7% percentile (ranked #792) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 1986, with 15 births per million (ranked 2.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2005.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ricardo".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Ricardo. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 81.4% confident that Ricardo is pronounced as rih-KAHR-doh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ree-KAHR-doh, at 18.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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