Ricard — boys' name

What the Data Says About Ricard

The Social Security Administration has registered 419 babies named Ricard between 1930 and 1994, spanning 65 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Ricard currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1994. The name reached its historical peak in 1990, when 18 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ricard performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 110 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Ricard shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 17 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Ricard in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ricard in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 419 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.