Richie
The boy's name Richie has been in the national records since 1899, with 7,575 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 1,852nd. About 6,400 Richies are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 46.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Richie boys named Richie
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 7,575
- Estimated living today
- 6,400
- Median age today
- 46
- Peak year
- 1964
- Best rank
- 527th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,852nd
- First recorded
- 1899
- Girls / boys
- 431 / 7,144
How old the living Richies are
born that year still alive today
Of the 7,575 babies given the name since 1899, about 6,400 are alive — 84 in every hundred. Roughly 1,200 of them are children and 850 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1979 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 Richies
- Richie Sambora (born 1959)American rock musician
- Richie Havens (1941–2013)American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- Richie Porte (born 1985)Australian racing cyclist
- Richie Laryea (born 1995)Canadian soccer player
- Richie Ginther (1930–1989)American racing driver
- Richie Faulkner (born 1980)British guitarist
- Richie McCaw (born 1980)New Zealand international rugby union player
- Richie Hawtin (born 1970)English-Canadian electronic musician and record producer
People named Richie with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Richie is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Richie is most concentrated in New York (3.0×), California (2.7×), Tennessee (2.1×), Texas (1.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1964
The most popular boys’ names the year Richie peaked:
Richie elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Richie | 812 | 751st |
| France boys | Richie | 180 | 2,408th |
| Scotland boys | Richie | 123 | 442nd |
| Ireland boys | Richie | 59 | 459th |
| Belgium boys | Richie | 5 | 1,066th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Richie | 3 | 415th |
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
Richie 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.