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Ritchie

#3,925 in 2025Boys' name

King, ruler + hard, brave, through Richard

Ritchie has been given to 4,170 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #3,925 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1964, with 153 recorded.

Babies named Ritchie, 2025

1 in 118,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ritchie: meaning, origin, and history

King, ruler + hard, brave, through Richard

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ritchie means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Ritchie is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Richard.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Ritchie is pronounced /ˈɹɪt͡ʃi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,120 boys were recorded with the name Ritchie between 1914 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 153 in 1964; its best national rank was #628 in 1964.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,397 in 2020 to #3,925 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,263 in 2015 to #3,925 in 2025.

In the United States, 50 girls were recorded with the name Ritchie between 1915 and 1954. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1940; its best national rank was #3,785 in 1940.

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 Ritchie?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 118,000
28 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 61,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,925
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
82,069 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ritchie 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 82,069 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ritchie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ritchies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ritchie was born before 1968 — so the typical Ritchie is around 57 today.

Median birth year
1968
About 57 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
25.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
15.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,750
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1960s — 25.1% of all recorded uses (1,035).

Is Ritchie 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
+373
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−528
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+338
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.17×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
18.3%
Peak was 1964 (153)
Years since peak
61
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#628
1964

Spellings of Ritchie

Ritchie is not the most common spelling — Rickie is, with 59.3% against Ritchie's 14.9%.

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 Ritchie is used

Across 1910–2025, Ritchie was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 91,232 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 33,333
  2. 2North Carolina1 in 33,333
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 50,000
  4. 4Tennessee1 in 50,000
  5. 5Arkansas1 in 100,000
  6. 6Georgia1 in 100,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 100,000
  8. 8Indiana1 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. Ritchie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ritchie around the world

Where Ritchie 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
    #2,014
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1975–2025
    #762
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2002–2002
    #451
    in 2002
  • France
    1981–2025
    #6,336
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2018
    #2,905
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1956–2001
    #581
    in 2001

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

People whose public names include Ritchie, 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.

Ritchie by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,925
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 528
Best rank ever
#628
1964
Peak year
1964
153 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,120
Count in 2025
28

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,785
1940
Peak year
1940
7 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
1954
All-time count
50
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ritchie

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

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Names with a curve like Ritchie

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

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Sibling names for Ritchie

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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