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Riccardo

#5,792 in 2025Boys' name

King, ruler + hard, brave, through *Rīkaharduz

Riccardo has been given to 1,576 babies in the U.S. since 1913. In 2025 it ranked #5,792 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1979, with 37 recorded.

Babies named Riccardo, 2025

1 in 207,000

Riccardo over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Riccardo: meaning, origin, and history

King, ruler + hard, brave, through *Rīkaharduz

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Riccardo means

Riccardo belongs to the name family reached through Riccardo → *Rīkaharduz. Its meaning is “king, ruler + hard, brave”.

Origin, language, and formation

Riccardo is used in Italian.

Riccardo comes through Proto-West Germanic *Rīkahard and Proto-Germanic *Rīkaharduz.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Richard and *Rīkaharduz.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Riccardo is pronounced /rikˈkar.do/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,576 boys were recorded with the name Riccardo between 1913 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 37 in 1979; its best national rank was #1,355 in 1954.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,938 in 2020 to #5,792 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,913 in 2015 to #5,792 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Riccardo?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,792
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Riccardo sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Riccardo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Riccardos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Riccardo was born before 1980 — so the typical Riccardo is around 45 today.

Median birth year
1980
About 45 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
17.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
21.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,517
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Choose a decade

1970s — 17.1% of all recorded uses (270).

Is Riccardo rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+1,380
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,146
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,121
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.60×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
43.2%
Peak was 1979 (37)
Years since peak
46
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,355
1954

Spellings of Riccardo

Riccardo is not the most common spelling — Richard is, with 94.5% against Riccardo's 0.06%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Riccardo is used

Across 1910–2025, Riccardo was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 334,484 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5Michigan1 in —
  6. 6New Jersey1 in —
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Riccardo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Riccardo around the world

Where Riccardo ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #1,613
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1974–1999
    #313
    in 1999
  • Ireland
    1988–2021
    #631
    in 2021
  • France
    1909–2025
    #5,763
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #2,436
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1952–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Riccardo by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,792
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,146
Best rank ever
#1,355
1954
Peak year
1979
37 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,576
Count in 2025
16

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Sibling names for Riccardo

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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