Richie
Richie is given to both girls and boys: 12 girls and 85 boys were given it in 2025 (#8,758 among girls’ names and #1,861 among boys’, #3,622 among all names counting both); 7,575 Americans have been recorded with it since 1899 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,310 Americans named Richie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (83% of everyone recorded); the median is 47 years old and half are between 24 and 60.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Richie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Richie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Richie is “a diminutive of the male given name Richard.”
From Richard.
/ˈɹɪt͡ʃi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Richie?
#1,861 among boys’ names, 2025
Richie rose from #2,066 in 2015 to #1,861 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 36.0 to 49.8 per million.
230 babies in 1964, the peak
Richie peaked in 1964, when 230 babies were given it (220 boys, #528 among boys’ names). The 97 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 42% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 85 | #1,861 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 91 | #1,804 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 66 | #2,184 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 84 | #1,887 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 65 | #2,187 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 73 | #1,975 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 57 | #2,386 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 49 | #2,607 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 48 | #2,626 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 69 | #2,062 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (103)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 69 | #2,066 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 75 | #1,936 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 45 | #2,658 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 68 | #2,042 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 54 | #2,369 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 64 | #2,113 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 71 | #1,986 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 60 | #2,226 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 71 | #1,991 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 71 | #1,914 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 59 | #2,102 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 68 | #1,824 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 70 | #1,745 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 57 | #1,961 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 76 | #1,581 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 74 | #1,598 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 69 | #1,587 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 68 | #1,568 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 76 | #1,433 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 104 | #1,145 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 69 | #1,440 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 76 | #1,340 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 70 | #1,389 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 88 | #1,192 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 94 | #1,131 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 68 | #1,354 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 95 | #1,075 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 85 | #1,079 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 50 | #1,458 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 58 | #1,280 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 60 | #1,238 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 63 | #1,152 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 39 | #1,554 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 70 | #1,092 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 51 | #1,304 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 69 | #1,094 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 73 | #1,039 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 114 | #796 | 0.07 |
| 1977 | 90 | #898 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 97 | #848 | 0.06 |
| 1975 | 114 | #778 | 0.07 |
| 1974 | 110 | #770 | 0.07 |
| 1973 | 86 | #859 | 0.06 |
| 1972 | 143 | #674 | 0.09 |
| 1971 | 143 | #697 | 0.08 |
| 1970 | 169 | #624 | 0.09 |
| 1969 | 163 | #612 | 0.09 |
| 1968 | 176 | #572 | 0.10 |
| 1967 | 183 | #550 | 0.10 |
| 1966 | 182 | #565 | 0.10 |
| 1965 | 193 | #553 | 0.10 |
| 1964 | 220 | #528 | 0.11 |
| 1963 | 188 | #577 | 0.09 |
| 1962 | 164 | #606 | 0.08 |
| 1961 | 124 | #687 | 0.06 |
| 1960 | 110 | #736 | 0.05 |
| 1959 | 112 | #725 | 0.05 |
| 1958 | 87 | #804 | 0.04 |
| 1957 | 75 | #878 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 59 | #975 | 0.03 |
| 1955 | 52 | #1,052 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 75 | #840 | 0.04 |
| 1953 | 53 | #997 | 0.03 |
| 1952 | 48 | #1,052 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 43 | #1,107 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 44 | #1,070 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 31 | #1,317 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 39 | #1,156 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 48 | #1,049 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 48 | #974 | 0.03 |
| 1945 | 42 | #991 | 0.03 |
| 1944 | 30 | #1,232 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 32 | #1,238 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 25 | #1,413 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 23 | #1,442 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 25 | #1,359 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,416 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 15 | #1,882 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 16 | #1,813 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 16 | #1,781 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 9 | #2,677 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 8 | #2,911 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 8 | #2,945 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 12 | #2,293 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,222 | under 0.01 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,528 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,193 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,023 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,113 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,707 | under 0.01 |
| 1925 | 5 | #4,756 | under 0.01 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,224 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,679 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Richie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 7,575 Americans recorded as Richie, 6% are girls and 94% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Richie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Richie, and how old are they?
6,310 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 83% of the 7,575 Americans ever recorded as Richie. The median Richie alive today is 47 years old; half are between 24 and 60.
The 2020 Census counted 7,058 people named Richie (354 women and girls, 6,704 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,145 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 120 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,280 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,860 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,090 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,060 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 899 |
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 Richie born?
The states with the most babies named Richie are California, New York and Texas, with 62% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 985 | #1,145 | 1.2× |
| New York | 844 | #1,712 | 1.4× |
| Texas | 392 | #1,460 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 170 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Tennessee | 166 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 127 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 121 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 101 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 91 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New Jersey | 73 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Richie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Richie is most over-represented in New York: since 1910 it was given 1.4 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 boys’ 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 Richie 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 8,752 babies since 1880, Richie is the most given (87% of them). In 2025 it was given to 97 of their 102 babies (95%), again the most given.
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 Richie
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 Richie and names like it
- Compare Richie and RichyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sRichie peaked in 1964.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Richie since 1910.
- The top names of 1964The year the most babies were named Richie.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Richie alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with RMost given first.