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Richie

#1,861 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

King, ruler + hard, brave, through Richard

Richie has been given to 7,575 babies in the U.S. since 1919. In 2025 it ranked #1,861 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1964, with 220 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 94% boys, 6% girls all-time.

Babies named Richie, 2025

1 in 39,000

Richie over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Richie over time

In 2025, Richie went to 12% girls and 88% boys.

18992025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Richie: meaning, origin, and history

King, ruler + hard, brave, through Richard

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Richie means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Richie is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Richard.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Richie is pronounced /ˈɹɪt͡ʃi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,144 boys were recorded with the name Richie between 1919 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 220 in 1964; its best national rank was #528 in 1964.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,975 in 2020 to #1,861 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,066 in 2015 to #1,861 in 2025.

In the United States, 431 girls were recorded with the name Richie between 1899 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1946; its best national rank was #1,369 in 1899.

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 Richie?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 39,000
85 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 20,100
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,861
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
27,035 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Richie 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 27,035 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Richie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Richies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Richie was born before 1975 — so the typical Richie is around 50 today.

Median birth year
1975
About 50 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
23.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
23.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
6,651
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1960s — 23.8% of all recorded uses (1,703).

Is Richie 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
−57
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+114
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+205
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.23×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
38.6%
Peak was 1964 (220)
Years since peak
61
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#528
1964

Spellings of Richie

Richie is not the most common spelling — Archie is, with 53.2% against Richie's 6.8%.

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 Richie is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Richie was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 39,980 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 16,667
  2. 2New York1 in 16,667
  3. 3Tennessee1 in 20,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 33,333
  5. 5Texas1 in 33,333
  6. 6Arkansas1 in 50,000
  7. 7Georgia1 in 50,000
  8. 8Indiana1 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. Richie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Richie is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Richie was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,018,164 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 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. Richie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Richie around the world

Where Richie 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
    #1,035
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1977–2025
    #647
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2015–2015
    #415
    in 2015
  • Ireland
    2001–2025
    #509
    in 2025
  • France
    1984–2025
    #6,375
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,817
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1959–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA 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.

Notable people named Richie

People whose public names include Richie, 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.

Richie by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,861
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 114
Best rank ever
#528
1964
Peak year
1964
220 that year
First recorded
1919
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,144
Count in 2025
85

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,758
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#1,369
1899
Peak year
1946
16 that year
First recorded
1899
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
431
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Richie

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

RickieRicoRichRichmondRickeyRiccoRitchieHughieRiccardoRichyRickiArchieRicardoRickRicheyRichardoRicardRicciRichrdRichadRickyRicharRickardRic

Names with a curve like Richie

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

ChetLennyStoneyTadKipDinoDarronRobbyVinceKraigTimmothyKelley

Sibling names for Richie

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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