boys:
646 births since 1919
#3941 (14th percentile)
overall:
646 births since 1919
#7093 (8th percentile)
The name Richardson is the #7,093 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 646 recorded births since 1919. This represents the 8.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 8.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,941 (14.0% percentile) for all time with 646 births since 1919.
Richardson first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1919 (first recorded for boys in 1919). Birth data for Richardson is available in 74 out of the 105 years between 1919 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, Richardson reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 1.4% percentile (ranked #803) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1928, with 11 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Richardson ranks #902 for boys (1.0% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 72.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Richardson".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Richardson. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 72.2% confident that Richardson is pronounced as RIH-cherd-suhn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is RIH-cherd-zuhn, at 11.1% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like R IH1 CH ER0 D S AH0 N) 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.
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