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Richard
Pronounced /ˈɹɪt͡ʃ.əd/
Rank in 2024
#232
Born in 2024
1,539
Peak year
1946 · #5
Origin
Germanic
Also recorded for girls:0 in 2024
1880 to 2024
CoolingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 1,539 boys were named Richard, about 1 in every 1,115.
- It peaked in 1946 with 58,871 babies, ranked #5.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 2,576,005 boys have been named Richard since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Richard per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 14.9Greatest1901–27
- 31.3Silent1928–45
- 25.6Boomers1946–64
- 14.3Gen X1965–80
- 7.0Millennials1981–96
- 2.5Gen Z1997–12
- 1.2Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 248,371 babies, 14.86 per 1,000. Silent: 647,019 babies, 31.33 per 1,000. Boomers: 959,734 babies, 25.56 per 1,000. Gen X: 388,396 babies, 14.27 per 1,000. Millennials: 212,270 babies, 6.97 per 1,000. Gen Z: 78,710 babies, 2.51 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 25,782 babies, 1.19 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Middle English Rycharde, from Old French Richard, from Medieval Latin Richardus, Ricohardus, from Frankish *Rīkahard, from Proto-Germanic *Rīkaharduz, a construction of *rīks (“king, ruler”) + *harduz (“hard, brave”). Cognate with Old High German Rīcohard (“Richard”). Partially related to rich. A hypothetical Old English equivalent *Rīċheard would also yield an identical "Richard" in Modern English, though it is unknown if the Old English equivalent existed. ==== Proper noun ==== Richard (plural Richards) A male given name from the Germanic languages.
- A male given name from the Germanic languages.
- Origin
- Germanic
- Say it
- /ˈɹɪt͡ʃ.əd/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Richard, CC BY-SA 4.0.