Richie — #1794 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Richie

The Social Security Administration has registered 7,059 babies named Richie between 1919 and 2024, spanning 106 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Richie currently holds the #1794 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1964, when 220 babies received it in a single year. Richie is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 419 additional births since 1899.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Richie performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 1,703 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Richie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 967 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Richie in 27 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Richie 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 7,059 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.