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Rickard

Boys' name

King, ruler + hard, brave, through Richard

Rickard has been given to 625 babies in the U.S. since 1916. 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 1958, with 30 recorded.

Babies named Rickard, 1979

1 in 416,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rickard: meaning, origin, and history

King, ruler + hard, brave, through Richard

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rickard means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Rickard is used in English and Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Richard.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 625 boys were recorded with the name Rickard between 1916 and 1979. Its highest annual count was 30 in 1958; its best national rank was #1,385 in 1950.

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 Rickard?

Rickard had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1979, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1979
1 in 416,000
8 of 3,326,731 births
Among boys only
1 in 215,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1979
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
288,240 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rickard 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 1979 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 288,240 children born in 1979 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rickard. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rickards were born

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

Median birth year
1952
About 73 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
41.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
41.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
389
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 41.0% of all recorded uses (256).

Is Rickard 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1958 (30)
Years since peak
67
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,385
1950

Spellings of Rickard

Rickard is not the most common spelling — Richard is, with 94.5% against Rickard's 0.02%.

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 Rickard is used

Across 1910–2025, Rickard was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,438,001 across all states with data. It was least common in Indiana (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Indiana1 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. Rickard has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rickard around the world

Where Rickard 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.

  • Ireland
    1969–1969
    #270
    in 1969
  • South Australia
    1952–1966
    #536
    in 1966

Popularity data from Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Rickard by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,385
1950
Peak year
1958
30 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
1979
All-time count
625
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rickard

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

RicardGerrardHarvardRichyRiccardoReshardBallardDeckardAlucardRichterSheppardRicherdRicheyRichardsonRicahrdRiccoRichrdRichadEdouardLenoardReynardLillardSherardRichmond

Sibling names for Rickard

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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