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Richa

Girls' name

Praise, verse, sacred text

Richa has been given to 640 babies in the U.S. since 1968. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2007, with 32 recorded.

Babies named Richa, 2017

1 in 511,000

Richa over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Richa: meaning, origin, and history

Praise, verse, sacred text

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Richa means

Richa means “praise, verse, sacred text”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Richa is used in Hindi, Marathi, Malayalam and Bengali.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 640 girls were recorded with the name Richa between 1968 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 32 in 2007; its best national rank was #4,214 in 1998.

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.

How common is Richa?

Richa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017
1 in 511,000
7 of 3,577,106 births
Among girls only
1 in 247,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
354,210 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Richa sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2017 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 354,210 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Richa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Richas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Richa was born before 2001 — so the typical Richa is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
40.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
78.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
640
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 40.2% of all recorded uses (257).

Is Richa 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2007 (32)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,214
1998

Spellings of Richa

Richa is not the most common spelling — Rita is, with 36.1% against Richa's 0.08%.

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 Richa is used

Across 1910–2025, Richa was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 202,480 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Richa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Richa around the world

Where Richa 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
    1996–2014
    #4,684
    in 2014
  • Canada
    1991–2018
    #3,384
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    2012–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Richa by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,214
1998
Peak year
2007
32 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
640
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Richa

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

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Sibling names for Richa

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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