Riccardo
Riccardo reached its high-water mark in 1979 at number 1,570, and has been recorded 1,576 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 5,608th. About 1,400 Riccardos are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 42.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Riccardo
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,576
- Estimated living today
- 1,400
- Median age today
- 42
- Peak year
- 1979
- Best rank
- 1,570th
- Rank in 2025
- 5,608th
- First recorded
- 1913
How old the living Riccardos are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,576 babies given the name since 1913, about 1,400 are alive — 87 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1983 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Riccardos
- Riccardo Giacconi (1931–2018)Italian-American astrophysicist
- Riccardo Montolivo (born 1985)Italian association football player
- Riccardo Calafiori (born 2002)Italian association football player
- Riccardo Muti (born 1941)Italian conductor
- Riccardo Patrese (born 1954)Italian racecar driver
- Riccardo Saponara (born 1991)Italian footballer
- Riccardo Ferri (born 1963)Italian association football player
- Riccardo Scamarcio (born 1979)Italian actor
People named Riccardo with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Riccardo is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Riccardo is most concentrated in New York (8.4×), Illinois (2.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1979
The most popular boys’ names the year Riccardo peaked:
Riccardo elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italy boys | Riccardo | 121,267 | — |
| Switzerland boys | Riccardo | 760 | 148th |
| England and Wales boys | Riccardo | 406 | 680th |
| France boys | Riccardo | 365 | 2,615th |
| Italy girls | Riccardo | 308 | — |
| Poland boys | Riccardo | 146 birth registrations | 210th |
| Belgium boys | Riccardo | 142 | 800th |
| Scotland boys | Riccardo | 55 | 206th |
| Ireland boys | Riccardo | 19 | 631st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Riccardo: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Riccardo | 378 | 0.030% | 153rd |
| French boys | Switzerland | Riccardo | 63 | 0.014% | 381st |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Riccardo | 317 | 0.486% | 11th |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Riccardo | 2 | 0.054% | 18th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Riccardo is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.49% of children were given it – 306 of them.
Riccardo: rank by region
In 2020, Riccardo was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Riccardo | 401 | 7 |
In 2024, Riccardo was among the 10 most common names in 15 regions of Italy. It has come first somewhere in 3 different years.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Piemonte | Riccardo | 7 | 245 |
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Riccardo | 7 | 2 |
| Lombardia | Riccardo | 5 | 726 |
| Provincia Autonoma di Trento | Riccardo | 4 | 44 |
| Veneto | Riccardo | 4 | 331 |
| Friuli-Venezia Giulia | Riccardo | 5 | 64 |
| Emilia-Romagna | Riccardo | 5 | 309 |
| Umbria | Riccardo | 10 | 42 |
| Marche | Riccardo | 5 | 95 |
| Lazio | Riccardo | 9 | 331 |
| Abruzzo | Riccardo | 5 | 99 |
| Molise | Riccardo | 10 | 13 |
| Basilicata | Riccardo | 9 | 24 |
| Sicilia | Riccardo | 10 | 321 |
| Sardegna | Riccardo | 4 | 122 |
In 2025, Riccardo was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Riccardo | 312 | 2 |
In 2024, with the country taken in 5 parts rather than 21, Riccardo appears in the lists for Nord-est (4th), Nord-ovest (5th) and Isole (9th).
In 2020, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Riccardo appears in the lists for Province of Hainaut (249th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Riccardo by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 2 | 593rd |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Riccardo among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Riccardo | 24 | 42 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Riccardo lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 1,048 men called Riccardo were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Riccardo | 144 | 0.270 | 380 |
| Palmas, Las | Riccardo | 140 | 0.241 | 416 |
| Balears, Illes | Riccardo | 70 | 0.112 | 654 |
| Barcelona | Riccardo | 243 | 0.083 | 769 |
| Málaga | Riccardo | 43 | 0.049 | 1,114 |
| Valencia/València | Riccardo | 64 | 0.047 | 1,217 |
Listed in 20 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 32 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Riccardo against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.