Richa — girls' name

What the Data Says About Richa

The Social Security Administration has registered 640 babies named Richa between 1968 and 2017, spanning 50 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Richa currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2017. The name reached its historical peak in 2007, when 32 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Richa performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 257 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Richa shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New Jersey, which accounts for 54 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California. In total, SSA state-level files list Richa in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Richa 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 640 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.