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Richy

#13,473 in 2025Boys' name

King, ruler + hard, brave, through Richard

Richy has been given to 703 babies in the U.S. since 1948. In 2025 it ranked #13,473 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1962, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Richy, 2025

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Richy: meaning, origin, and history

King, ruler + hard, brave, through Richard

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Richy means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Richy is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Richard and Richie.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 703 boys were recorded with the name Richy between 1948 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 26 in 1962; its best national rank was #1,580 in 1962.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #11,710 in 2020 to #13,473 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,575 in 2015 to #13,473 in 2025.

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 Richy?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#13,473
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Richy 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Richy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Richys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Richy was born before 1983 — so the typical Richy is around 42 today.

Median birth year
1983
About 42 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
27.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
25.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
698
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Choose a decade

1960s — 27.5% of all recorded uses (193).

Is Richy 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
−1,429
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,763
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,898
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.56×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
19.2%
Peak was 1962 (26)
Years since peak
63
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,580
1962

Spellings of Richy

Richy is not the most common spelling — Ricky is, with 40.0% against Richy's 0.13%.

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 Richy is used

Across 1910–2025, Richy was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,089,544 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

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

Richy around the world

Where Richy 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
    2011–2011
    #4,647
    in 2011
  • France
    1985–2021
    #4,919
    in 2021

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

Richy by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,473
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,763
Best rank ever
#1,580
1962
Peak year
1962
26 that year
First recorded
1948
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
703
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Richy

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

RiccoRicciRicheyRickiRicardRickeRichrdRichRichadMalachyRicharRickardRiceRiccardoRichieRicRicoRichterRickoRichardsonRicherdRickieRicahrdRichmond

Sibling names for Richy

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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