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

The name Richard is the #9 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,583,933 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 99.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 99.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #8 (99.8% percentile) for all time with 2,574,402 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #1,655 (71.0% percentile) for all time with 9,531 births since 1886.

Richard has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1886 for girls).

The name Richard has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.

For boys, Richard reached its peak popularity in 1947, achieving the 99.3% percentile (ranked #5) with 31,511 births per million. The name was most common in 1946, with 35,670 births per million (ranked 99.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1967, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Richard ranks #218 for boys (76.2% percentile) with 895 births per million, which is 2.5% of its peak share of births.

For girls, Richard reached its peak popularity in 1929, achieving the 31.0% percentile (ranked #409) with 173 births per million. The name was most common in 1929, with 173 births per million (ranked 31.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.

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

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Key Statistics

Total Births
9,531
Peak Births
201
Peak Year
1929
First Recorded
1886
Peak Percentile
31.0%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#409
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 under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 100.0% confident that Richard is pronounced as RIH-cherd, which has 2 syllables.

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

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

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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 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.

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