girls:
410 births since 1899
#5306 (7th percentile)
boys:
7k births since 1919
#1406 (69th percentile)
overall:
7.4k births since 1899
#3140 (59th percentile)
The name Richie is the #3,140 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 7,378 recorded births since 1899. This represents the 59.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 59.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,406 (69.3% percentile) for all time with 6,968 births since 1919. For girls, it ranks #5,306 (7.1% percentile) for all time with 410 births since 1899.
Richie first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1899 (1899 for girls and 1919 for boys). Birth data for Richie is available in 109 out of the 125 years between 1899 and 2023 (101 years for boys and 50 years for girls). 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.
The name Richie has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 94.4% of all recorded births being male. Interestingly, until around 1929, the name was more popular for girls (71.9% girls from 1899 to 1928), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (95.6% boys from 1929 to 2023).
For boys, Richie reached its peak popularity in 1964, achieving the 30.2% percentile (ranked #462) with 109 births per million. The name was most common in 1964, with 109 births per million (ranked 30.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Richie ranks #850 for boys (6.7% percentile) with 36 births per million, which is 33.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Richie reached its peak popularity in 1946, achieving the 1.7% percentile (ranked #648) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1899, with 28 births per million (ranked 0.6% 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 "Richie".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Richie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 84.6% confident that Richie is pronounced as RIH-chee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is REE-chee, at 15.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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