Richelle

Where Richelle comes from

Richelle hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1942
    First appearance
    #4,622 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1969
    Peak, #590
    281 babies named Richelle — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1976
    Richelle Mead born
    American writer
  4. 1985
    Richelle Ryan born
    American pornographic actress
  5. 1995
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,301.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Richelle Mead · American writer, born 1976
  • Richelle Ryan · American pornographic actress, born 1985
  • Richelle Anita Soppi Mbella · Cameroonian Judo player, born 1990
  • Richelle Carey · American journalist, born 1976
  • Richelle Stephens · Rugby sevens player, born 1996

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.