boys:
4.4k births since 1880
#1838 (60th percentile)
overall:
4.4k births since 1880
#4149 (46th percentile)
The name Rich is the #4,149 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,355 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 46.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 46.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,838 (59.9% percentile) for all time with 4,355 births since 1880.
Rich has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 Birth data for Rich is available in 127 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023. 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.
For boys, Rich reached its peak popularity in 1962, achieving the 32.7% percentile (ranked #443) with 121 births per million. The name was most common in 1962, with 121 births per million (ranked 32.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2012, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Rich ranks #888 for boys (2.5% percentile) with 15 births per million, which is 12.6% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Rich".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Rich. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 87.8% confident that Rich is pronounced as rihch, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is reech, at 12.2% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like R IH1 CH) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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