Richer
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Richer has been given to 20 babies in the U.S. since 1994. 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 1998, with 8 recorded.
Babies named Richer, 1999
1 in 615,000
Richer over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Richer?
Richer had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1999, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1999
- 1 in 615,000
- 6 of 3,692,373 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 320,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1999
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 426,561 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Richer sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1999 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 426,561 children born in 1999 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Richer. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Richers were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Richer was born before 1998 — so the typical Richer is around 27 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 20
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (20).
Is Richer 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
- —
- 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 1998 (8)
- Years since peak
- 27
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 25.0% average annual change
Spellings of Richer
Richer is not the most common spelling — Richard is, with 93.8% against Richer's <0.01%.
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.
Richer around the world
Where Richer 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.
- Canada1992–2022#2,602in 2022
Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Richer by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Richer
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Richer
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.