Ritchey
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ritchey has been given to 19 babies in the U.S. since 1953. 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 1963, with 8 recorded.
Babies named Ritchey, 1972
1 in 629,000
Ritchey 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Ritchey?
Ritchey had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1972, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1972
- 1 in 629,000
- 5 of 3,142,796 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 324,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1972
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 435,685 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ritchey sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1972 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 435,685 children born in 1972 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ritchey. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ritcheys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ritchey was born before 1963 — so the typical Ritchey is around 62 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 42.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 19
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 42.1% of all recorded uses (8).
Is Ritchey 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
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1963 (8)
- Years since peak
- 62
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Ritchey
Ritchey is not the most common spelling — Rickey is, with 77.3% against Ritchey's 0.02%.
Where Ritchey is used
Across 1910–2025, Ritchey was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,652,691 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Texas1 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. Ritchey has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Ritchey by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Ritchey
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ritchey
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.