Richie
#8,362 for girls in 2025, 12 births · #1,852 for boys in 2025, 85 births
Given to boys 94.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1964 · 220 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 7,144since 1919
Richie over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,362 | 12 | #1,852 | 85 |
| 2024 | #10,271 | 9 | #1,795 | 91 |
| 2023 | — | #2,173 | 66 | |
| 2022 | #11,231 | 8 | #1,875 | 84 |
| 2021 | — | #2,173 | 65 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,962 | 73 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,364 | 57 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,579 | 49 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,597 | 48 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,047 | 69 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,055 | 69 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,920 | 75 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,623 | 45 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,036 | 68 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,346 | 54 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,100 | 64 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,975 | 71 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,207 | 60 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,972 | 71 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,893 | 71 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,081 | 59 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,815 | 68 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,739 | 70 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,943 | 57 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,572 | 76 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,585 | 74 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,580 | 69 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,558 | 68 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,423 | 76 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,141 | 104 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,430 | 69 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,340 | 76 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,379 | 70 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,187 | 88 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,130 | 94 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,353 | 68 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,074 | 95 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,076 | 85 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,439 | 50 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,269 | 58 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,228 | 60 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,144 | 63 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,534 | 39 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,088 | 70 | |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 | #1,294 | 51 |
| 1980 | — | #1,089 | 69 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,034 | 73 | |
| 1978 | — | #795 | 114 | |
| 1977 | — | #895 | 90 | |
| 1976 | — | #845 | 97 | |
| 1975 | — | #774 | 114 | |
| 1974 | — | #769 | 110 | |
| 1973 | — | #852 | 86 | |
| 1972 | — | #671 | 143 | |
| 1971 | #5,543 | 9 | #692 | 143 |
| 1970 | — | #624 | 169 | |
| 1969 | — | #611 | 163 | |
| 1968 | #3,789 | 13 | #571 | 176 |
| 1967 | — | #550 | 183 | |
| 1966 | — | #564 | 182 | |
| 1965 | #5,289 | 7 | #551 | 193 |
| 1964 | #4,355 | 10 | #527 | 220 |
| 1963 | #5,891 | 6 | #575 | 188 |
| 1962 | #5,860 | 6 | #604 | 164 |
| 1961 | #4,882 | 8 | #687 | 124 |
| 1960 | #4,773 | 8 | #733 | 110 |
| 1959 | #4,300 | 9 | #722 | 112 |
| 1958 | #6,103 | 5 | #804 | 87 |
| 1957 | #5,377 | 6 | #873 | 75 |
| 1956 | #4,161 | 9 | #969 | 59 |
| 1955 | #3,095 | 14 | #1,047 | 52 |
| 1954 | #3,967 | 9 | #833 | 75 |
| 1953 | #4,595 | 7 | #989 | 53 |
| 1952 | #2,806 | 15 | #1,044 | 48 |
| 1951 | #4,011 | 8 | #1,097 | 43 |
| 1950 | #3,662 | 9 | #1,064 | 44 |
| 1949 | #4,673 | 6 | #1,297 | 31 |
| 1948 | #3,883 | 8 | #1,145 | 39 |
| 1947 | #3,706 | 9 | #1,036 | 48 |
| 1946 | #2,392 | 16 | #967 | 48 |
| 1945 | #2,237 | 15 | #986 | 42 |
| 1944 | #2,511 | 13 | #1,212 | 30 |
| 1943 | #3,801 | 7 | #1,214 | 32 |
| 1942 | #3,738 | 7 | #1,381 | 25 |
| 1941 | #3,954 | 6 | #1,411 | 23 |
| 1940 | #2,572 | 11 | #1,334 | 25 |
| 1939 | — | #2,288 | 10 | |
| 1938 | #3,847 | 6 | #1,818 | 15 |
| 1937 | — | #1,756 | 16 | |
| 1936 | — | #1,723 | 16 | |
| 1935 | #3,742 | 6 | #2,529 | 9 |
| 1934 | #3,449 | 7 | #2,742 | 8 |
| 1933 | #3,753 | 6 | #2,738 | 8 |
| 1932 | #2,490 | 12 | #2,191 | 12 |
| 1931 | — | #3,763 | 5 | |
| 1930 | #4,047 | 6 | #3,289 | 7 |
| 1929 | #4,053 | 6 | #2,980 | 8 |
| 1928 | — | #2,843 | 9 | |
| 1927 | #4,286 | 6 | #3,780 | 6 |
| 1926 | #3,873 | 7 | #4,201 | 5 |
| 1925 | #4,973 | 5 | #4,197 | 5 |
| 1924 | #3,144 | 10 | — | |
| 1923 | #4,376 | 6 | — | |
| 1922 | #4,445 | 6 | #3,872 | 6 |
| 1921 | #2,378 | 15 | — | |
| 1920 | #4,975 | 5 | — | |
| 1919 | #4,251 | 6 | #4,168 | 5 |
| 1918 | #3,869 | 7 | — | |
| 1917 | #3,713 | 7 | — | |
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| 1909 | #2,208 | 5 | — | |
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| 1899 | #1,278 | 7 | — | |
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| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five boys were named Richie! It came in at #4,168, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1919–1921, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Richie
- 57 spots since 2024 (#1,795 → #1,852)
- 110 spots since 2020 (#1,962 → #1,852)
- 203 spots since 2015 (#2,055 → #1,852)
- Biggest jump: 226 spots in 1945 (#1,212 → #986)
- Biggest drop: 239 spots in 1979 (#795 → #1,034)
- Debuted 1919
- Peaked 1964 at #527 (220 births)
- Births halved by 1973, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 27 yrs · run 1956–1978
- Highest: 1 in 9,058 boys born in 1964 were named Richie (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 20,095 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 23.8% of all boys named Richie (1,703) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1932, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #4,168 (1919) | #4,168 |
| 1920s | 39 | #2,843 (1928) | #3,646 |
| 1930s | 106 | #1,723 (1936) | #2,484 |
| 1940s | 343 | #967 (1946) | #1,198 |
| 1950s | 648 | #722 (1959) | #944 |
| 1960s | 1,703 | #527 (1964) | #597 |
| 1970s | 1,139 | #624 (1970) | #795 |
| 1980s | 640 | #1,074 (1989) | #1,224 |
| 1990s | 782 | #1,130 (1991) | #1,352 |
| 2000s | 677 | #1,572 (2001) | #1,878 |
| 2010s | 598 | #1,920 (2014) | #2,267 |
| 2020s | 464 | #1,795 (2024) | #1,972 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Richie in 1965
Top girls' names in 1965
Top boys' names in 1965
More about 1965
girls
1,765,164 girls got a published name in 1965; 1 in 252,166 of them was named Richie, which outranked 29.8% of the 7,535 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,860,143 boys got a published name in 1965; 1 in 9,638 of them was named Richie, which outranked 87.5% of the 4,425 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 28.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).