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Richmond

#5,561 in 2025Boys' name

From Middle English Rychemund; literal meaning unconfirmed

Richmond has been given to 4,305 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #5,561 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1921, with 73 recorded.

Babies named Richmond, 2025

1 in 195,000

Richmond over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Richmond: meaning, origin, and history

From Middle English Rychemund; literal meaning unconfirmed

surname transfer

What Richmond means

Richmond is a given name.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Middle English Rychemund, from a name cognate to French Richemont (“town in Normandy”). Equivalent to rich + mound.

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

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Richmond is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Richmond comes through Middle English Rychemund.

Richmond is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Richmond is pronounced /ˈɹɪt͡ʃ.mənd/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,305 boys were recorded with the name Richmond between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 73 in 1921; its best national rank was #433 in 1899.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,991 in 2020 to #5,561 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,262 in 2015 to #5,561 in 2025.

How common is Richmond?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,561
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Richmond 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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Richmond. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Richmonds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Richmond was born before 1952 — so the typical Richmond is around 73 today.

Median birth year
1952
About 73 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
12.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
12.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,254
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 12.4% of all recorded uses (533).

Is Richmond 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
+1,176
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−570
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,299
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.71×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
23.3%
Peak was 1921 (73)
Years since peak
104
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#433
1899

Where Richmond is used

Across 1910–2025, Richmond was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 158,636 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 33,333
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 50,000
  3. 3California1 in 100,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in 100,000
  5. 5Kentucky1 in 100,000
  6. 6Louisiana1 in 100,000
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 100,000
  8. 8South Carolina1 in 100,000

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

Richmond around the world

Where Richmond 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
    #3,256
    in 2025
  • France
    1999–2023
    #6,619
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1993–2018
    #2,536
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1946–1991
    #481
    in 1991

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

Notable people named Richmond

People whose public names include Richmond, 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.

Richmond by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,561
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 570
Best rank ever
#433
1899
Peak year
1921
73 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,305
Count in 2025
17

Names similar to Richmond

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

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Names with a curve like Richmond

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

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Sibling names for Richmond

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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