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Rich

#4,016 in 2025Boys' name

King, ruler + hard, brave, through Richard

Rich has been given to 4,407 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #4,016 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1962, with 256 recorded.

Babies named Rich, 2025

1 in 123,000

Rich 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rich: meaning, origin, and history

King, ruler + hard, brave, through Richard

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rich means

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

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Richard. The surname also derives from rich as a nickname.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Rich (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Rich is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Richard.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Rich is pronounced /ɹɪt͡ʃ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,407 boys were recorded with the name Rich between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 256 in 1962; its best national rank was #497 in 1962.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,395 in 2020 to #4,016 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,237 in 2015 to #4,016 in 2025.

How common is Rich?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 123,000
27 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 63,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,016
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
85,108 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rich 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 85,108 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rich. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Richs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rich was born before 1963 — so the typical Rich is around 62 today.

Median birth year
1963
About 62 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
40.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
12.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,754
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 40.6% of all recorded uses (1,789).

Is Rich 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
+37
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−621
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,221
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.50×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
10.5%
Peak was 1962 (256)
Years since peak
63
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#497
1962

Spellings of Rich

Rich is not the most common spelling — Eric is, with 54.2% against Rich's 0.27%.

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 Rich is used

Across 1910–2025, Rich was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 55,643 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 25,000
  2. 2Illinois1 in 33,333
  3. 3Michigan1 in 33,333
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 33,333
  5. 5Ohio1 in 33,333
  6. 6Washington1 in 33,333
  7. 7Missouri1 in 50,000
  8. 8Montana1 in 50,000

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. Rich has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rich around the world

Where Rich 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
    2012–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • France
    2023–2023
    #6,276
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2006–2021
    #2,619
    in 2021

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Rich

People whose public names include Rich, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Rich in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Rich. Linked forms have their own page here.

Rick

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Rich by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,016
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 621
Best rank ever
#497
1962
Peak year
1962
256 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,407
Count in 2025
27

Names similar to Rich

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Rich

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Rich, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Rich

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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