Richelle
Richelle was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,739 among girls’ names; 8,456 Americans have been recorded with it since 1942 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,950 Americans named Richelle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 45 years old and half are between 35 and 55.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Richelle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Richelle?
#10,739 among girls’ names, 2025
Richelle fell from #5,422 in 2015 to #10,739 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 14.0 to 5.6 per million.
281 babies in 1969, the peak
Richelle peaked in 1969, when 281 girls were given it, #591 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,739 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 7 | #13,178 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,176 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,566 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,623 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,877 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 12 | #9,000 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,186 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,302 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,148 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (82)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 25 | #5,422 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,952 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 34 | #4,318 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 43 | #3,695 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 34 | #4,338 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 53 | #3,151 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 68 | #2,699 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 59 | #2,987 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 59 | #3,021 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 57 | #3,013 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 50 | #3,159 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 63 | #2,638 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 66 | #2,484 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 77 | #2,171 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 61 | #2,531 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 65 | #2,392 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 86 | #1,850 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 85 | #1,824 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 88 | #1,744 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 134 | #1,291 | 0.08 |
| 1995 | 128 | #1,301 | 0.07 |
| 1994 | 151 | #1,171 | 0.08 |
| 1993 | 180 | #1,026 | 0.10 |
| 1992 | 160 | #1,113 | 0.09 |
| 1991 | 218 | #894 | 0.12 |
| 1990 | 214 | #897 | 0.11 |
| 1989 | 241 | #790 | 0.13 |
| 1988 | 216 | #835 | 0.12 |
| 1987 | 214 | #818 | 0.12 |
| 1986 | 201 | #831 | 0.12 |
| 1985 | 187 | #861 | 0.11 |
| 1984 | 152 | #955 | 0.09 |
| 1983 | 184 | #835 | 0.11 |
| 1982 | 164 | #921 | 0.10 |
| 1981 | 195 | #818 | 0.12 |
| 1980 | 187 | #838 | 0.11 |
| 1979 | 208 | #773 | 0.13 |
| 1978 | 182 | #824 | 0.12 |
| 1977 | 156 | #912 | 0.10 |
| 1976 | 167 | #831 | 0.11 |
| 1975 | 187 | #760 | 0.13 |
| 1974 | 201 | #719 | 0.14 |
| 1973 | 249 | #619 | 0.17 |
| 1972 | 264 | #605 | 0.17 |
| 1971 | 225 | #683 | 0.14 |
| 1970 | 257 | #643 | 0.15 |
| 1969 | 281 | #591 | 0.17 |
| 1968 | 229 | #643 | 0.14 |
| 1967 | 193 | #704 | 0.12 |
| 1966 | 170 | #756 | 0.10 |
| 1965 | 126 | #899 | 0.07 |
| 1964 | 102 | #1,081 | 0.05 |
| 1963 | 121 | #968 | 0.06 |
| 1962 | 94 | #1,124 | 0.05 |
| 1961 | 116 | #1,009 | 0.06 |
| 1960 | 86 | #1,178 | 0.04 |
| 1959 | 61 | #1,380 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 62 | #1,345 | 0.03 |
| 1957 | 60 | #1,372 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 53 | #1,465 | 0.03 |
| 1955 | 41 | #1,611 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 43 | #1,556 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 34 | #1,729 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 18 | #2,560 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 23 | #2,100 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,875 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 16 | #2,602 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 12 | #3,102 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,402 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,178 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,439 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,229 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Richelle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Richelle has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 82 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Richelle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Richelle, and how old are they?
7,950 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 8,456 Americans ever recorded as Richelle. The median Richelle alive today is 45 years old; half are between 35 and 55.
The 2020 Census counted 7,854 people named Richelle (7,828 women and girls, 26 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,021 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 6 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 805 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 3,050 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,860 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 231 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Richelle born?
The states with the most babies named Richelle are California, Pennsylvania and New York, with 42% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,164 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 527 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| New York | 499 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 423 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 422 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Texas | 300 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 264 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Washington | 228 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Illinois | 207 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Missouri | 160 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Richelle is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Richelle is most over-represented in Washington: since 1942 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Richelle with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 9,207 babies since 1880, Richelle is the most given (92% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Richelle
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Richelle and names like it
- Compare Richelle and RicheleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sRichelle peaked in 1969.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Richelle since 1910.
- The top names of 1969The year the most babies were named Richelle.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Richelle alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with RMost given first.