Richard

girls:

9.5k births since 1886

#1655 (71st percentile)

boys:

2.6M births since 1880

#8 (100th percentile)

overall:

2.6M births since 1880

#9 (100th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Richard".

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
9,531
Peak Births
201
Peak Year
1929
First Recorded
1886
Peak Percentile
31.0%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#257
Current Rank
Female statistics
Total Births
2,574,402
Peak Births
58,869
Peak Year
1947
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
99.3%
Current Percentile
76.2%
Peak Rank
#5
Current Rank
#218
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Richard

Our model found one way to pronounce the name Richard. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 100.0% confident that Richard is pronounced as RIH-cherd.

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RIH-cherd (2 syllables)
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100.0% confidence
R IH1 CH ER0 D

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Richard. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Richard, please vote using the thumbs up button.

rihchrd (1 syllable)
1 name 403 births
R IH1 CH R D

Names with this pronunciation:

RIH-chuhd (2 syllables)
2 names 385 births
R IH1 CH AH0 D

Names with this pronunciation:

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

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 ER0 D) 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.