Rich
Rich reached its high-water mark in 1962 at number 496, and has been recorded 4,407 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 3,949th. About 3,300 Riches are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 60.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Rich
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 4,407
- Estimated living today
- 3,300
- Median age today
- 60
- Peak year
- 1962
- Best rank
- 496th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,949th
- First recorded
- 1880
How old the living Riches are
born that year still alive today
Of the 4,407 babies given the name since 1880, about 3,300 are alive — 75 in every hundred. Roughly 390 of them are children and 880 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1965 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.
Where the name comes from
From Richard. The surname also derives from rich as a nickname.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Richs
- Rich Moore (born 1963)American animator and film director
- Rich Sommer (born 1978)American actor
- Rich Franklin (born 1974)American mixed martial artist
- Rich Swann (born 1991)American professional wrestler
- Rich the Kid (born 1992)American rapper
- Rich Skrenta (born 1967)American computer programmer
- Rich Mullins (1955–1997)American Christian Musician
- Rich Piana (1970–2017)American bodybuilder and Internet personality/entrepreneur
People named Rich with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Rich is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Rich is most concentrated in California (2.8×), Washington (2.6×), Illinois (2.6×), Michigan (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1962
The most popular boys’ names the year Rich peaked:
Rich elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Rich | 6 | 5,119th |
| France boys | Rich | 5 | 6,276th |
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.
Related names
Rich 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.