Richard
2025 SSA
Below 5 births
About Richard
A classic old Norman name popular for a thousand years and favored for kings (Richard Nixon was named for Richard the Lionhearted), as well as the hoi polloi (as in every Tom, Dick and Harry), Richard was the sixth most popular US boys’ name in 1925, and was still Number 8 in 1950, but is now much less popular.
We predict that if parents do readopt the name Richard, it will be in its full and formal version. All the possible nicknames -- Richie (too Happy Days), Ricky, (too I Love Lucy) and especially Dick (too tricky and teasable) -- sound so dated that it's hard to imagine Richard ever coming back into style. But not that long ago, people said that about now-hot baby names Jake and Max.
Richard is also given to girls.
Pronounced RICH-urd.
As of October 2026, Richard ranked #234 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #5 in 1932, Nameberry popularity #310.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · boys | Births · boys | US rank · girls | Births · girls |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #141 | 2,887 | — | 0 |
| 2015 | #155 | 2,687 | — | 0 |
| 2016 | #161 | 2,523 | — | 0 |
| 2017 | #175 | 2,284 | — | 0 |
| 2018 | #187 | 2,137 | — | 0 |
| 2019 | #197 | 1,989 | — | 0 |
| 2020 | #208 | 1,826 | — | 0 |
| 2021 | #216 | 1,782 | — | 0 |
| 2022 | #219 | 1,684 | — | 0 |
| 2023 | #221 | 1,645 | — | 0 |
| 2024 | #232 | 1,539 | — | 0 |
| 2025 | #234 | 1,505 | — | 0 |
World rankings
Richard for boys
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Richard on lists
Famous Richards
- Richard I the LionheartBoy
King of England
- Richard IIBoy
King of England
- Richard IIIBoy
King of England and subject of a play by Shakespeare
- Richard WagnerBoy
German composer
- Richard Milhous NixonBoy
37th U.S. president
- Richard BurtonBoy
Welsh actor
- Richard StarkeyBoy
birth name of Ringo Starr, English drummer for The Beatles
- (Clinton) Richard DawkinsBoy
English evolutionist
- Richard Charles RodgersBoy
American composer
- Richard Lynn CarpenterBoy
American musician and composer
- Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas PryorBoy
American comedian
- Richard Tiffany GereBoy
American actor
- Richard Crispin ArmitageBoy
English actor
- Richard E. GrantBoy
English actor
- Richard Alexander Walter GeorgeBoy
Prince of the U.K.; Duke of Gloucester; cousin of Elizabeth II
- Richard Casimir Karl August Robert KonstantinBoy
6th Prince of Sayn,Wittgenstein,Berleburg; husband of Princess Benedikte of Denmark
- Richard "Dick" WintersBoy
WWII paratrooper and CO of Easy Company (of "Band of Brothers" fame)
- Richard Benjamin "Dick" HaymesBoy
Argentine actor & singer
- Richard Ralph HaymesBoy
son of Dick Haymes & Joanne Dru
- Richard Speight Jr.Boy
American actor
- Richard Dean AndersonBoy
American actor
- Richard RoxburghBoy
Australian actor
- Richard MaddenBoy
Scottish actor
- Richard Ellef AyoadeBoy
English comedian, actor, writer and director
- Richard Robert RuccoloBoy
American actor
- Richard David BriersBoy
English actor
- Richard ShermanBoy
NFL player
- Richard (Richie) Hugh McCawBoy
New Zealand rugby footballer
- Richard FeynmanBoy
American theoretical physicist & Nobel prize winner
- Richard HadfieldBoy
member of English band Collabro
- Richard Stephen DreyfussBoy
American actor
- Richard "Dick" Gordon Jr.Boy
American astronaut
- Richard 'Fazer' RawsonBoy
British Singer, Producer and member of N,Dubz
- Richard BransonBoy
British entrepeneur
- Richard WarrenBoy
Mayflower passenger
- Richard Morton ShermanBoy
American songwriter with his brother Robert B. Sherman
- Richard LeafBoy
British actor
- Richard James "Rick" CosnettBoy
Zimbabwean,Australian actor
- Richard LuiBoy
American journalist, MSNBC anchor
- Richard Meeker Jr.Boy
late son of American actress Mary Tyler Moore
- Richard JenkinsBoy
American actor
- Richard BlaisBoy
American chef
- Richard Everitt (b. 1978)Boy
15 year old white British boy who was stabbed to death because he was white in 1994
Richard in pop culture
- Richard "Dick" GraysonBoy
also known as Robin, character in DC Universe
- Richard SwiftBoy
also known as Shade, character in DC Universe
- Richard HendricksBoy
character on TV's "Silicon Valley"
- Richard Alexander Rodgers aka Richard Edgar "Rick" CastleBoy
character on TV's "Castle"
- Richard BucketBoy
character on British comedy "Keeping Up Appearances"
- Richard GilmoreBoy
character on TV's "Gilmore Girls"
- Richard RomaBoy
character in David Mamet's "Glengarry Glen Ross"
- Richard WebberBoy
character on TV's "Grey's Anatomy"
- Richard TraversBoy
character in the movie "Cliffhanger"
- Richard Cole the EnglishBoy
kjurnalist from the Power of Five book series
- Richard CypherBoy
main character on TV's "Legend of the Seeker"
- Richard ParkerBoy
tiger in Yann Martel's "Life of Pi"
- Richard WellingtonBoy
character in game 'Ace Attorney'
- Richard TylerBoy
character in animated film "The Pagemaster"
- Richard "Dick" CasablancasBoy
character on TV's "Veronica Mars"
- Richard "Dick" Campbell Gansey IIIBoy
character in "The Raven Cycle" by Maggie Stiefvater
- Richard PapenBoy
character in "The Secret History"
- Richard LestrangeBoy
character in "The Blue Lagoon"
- Richard PhillipsBoy
character in "Sims" series
- Richard "Rocky" ScarletBoy
character in "Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism" by Georgia Byng
- Richard "Rich" HardbeckBoy
character from British TV show "Skins"
- Richard "Rick" BlaineBoy
character from "Casablanca"
- Richard "Rick" SanchezBoy
character from "Rick and Morty"
- Richard "Dick" RomanBoy
character from Supernatural
- Richard WattersonBoy
Gumball's father in the Amazing World of Gumball
- Richard MacDuffBoy
programmer and ex,boyfriend of Dirk Gently in the novel "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency"
- "Frauncis new Jigge, betweene Frauncis a Gentleman, and Richard a Farmer"Boy
17th century Broadside Ballad
- "Willie and the Earl Richard's Daughter"Boy
A ballad in the 19th century collection "The Child Ballads"
Variations & nicknames
More nicknames
- DickBoy
- DickieBoy
- DickyBoy
- RaechardBoy
- RashardBoy
- RicBoy
- RicardBoy
- RichBoy
- RicharBoy
- RichardsenBoy
- RichardsonBoy
- RichaudBoy
- RicherBoy
- RicherdBoy
- RicheyBoy
- RichieBoy
- RichirdBoy
- RichshardBoy
- RichyBoy
- RickBoy
- RickeBoy
- RickeyBoy
- RickieBoy
- RickyBoy
- RishardBoy
- RishiBoy
- RitchBoy
- RitchardBoy
- RitcherdBoy
- RitchieBoy
- RitchyBoy
- RitshardBoy
- RitsherdBoy
- RykBoy