Ricardo

3,544 people in the United States were counted with the surname Ricardo in the 2020 census, making it the 8,871st most common in the country. That is about one person in 84,300.

By the numbers

People: 3,544
Rank: 8,871st
How common: 1 in 84,300
Per 100,000: 1.2

Where the name comes from

From Portuguese and Spanish Ricardo.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Ricardo described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 69.4%
White, not Hispanic 21.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 4.0%
Black, not Hispanic 3.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Ricardo

David Ricardo (1772–1823)British economist and politician
Ricardo (born 1976)Portuguese footballer and coach
Ricardo (born 1971)Spanish footballer
João Ricardo (born 1970)Angolan footballer
Harry Ricardo (1885–1974)British internal combustion engine engineer
Ricardo (born 1993)Brazilian association football player

People named Ricardo with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Ricardo

Also a first name

Ricardo has been given to 147,169 American babies as a first name since 1888, peaking in 1998. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.