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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| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 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 1989
Top boys' names in 1989
More about 1989
boys
2,000,928 boys got a published name in 1989; 1 in 21,062 of them was named Richie, which outranked 88.4% of the 9,232 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,064Tim96
- #1,064Trace96
- #1,064Vito96
- #1,074Richie95
- #1,074Broc95
- #1,074Coy95
- #1,074Jarad95
- #1,082Al94
- #1,082Danial94
- #1,082Denver94
Tied with 7 names at #1,074; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.