girls:
8.4k births since 1942
#1775 (69th percentile)
overall:
8.4k births since 1942
#2940 (62nd percentile)
The name Richelle is the #2,940 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 8,440 recorded births since 1942. This represents the 62.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 62.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,775 (68.9% percentile) for all time with 8,440 births since 1942.
Richelle first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1942 (first recorded for girls in 1942). Birth data for Richelle is available in 80 out of the 82 years between 1942 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 girls, Richelle reached its peak popularity in 1969, achieving the 32.8% percentile (ranked #513) with 159 births per million. The name was most common in 1972, with 164 births per million (ranked 32.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2010, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Richelle ranks #942 for girls (0.5% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 3.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Richelle".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Richelle. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 62.5% confident that Richelle is pronounced as rih-SHEHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is rih-CHEHL, at 15.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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