Rich

47,823 people in the United States were counted with the surname Rich in the 2020 census, making it the 696th most common in the country. That is about one person in 6,250.

By the numbers

People: 47,823
Rank: 696th
How common: 1 in 6,250
Per 100,000: 16.0

Where the name comes from

Origin a given name

From Richard. The surname also derives from rich as a nickname.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 81.9%
Black, not Hispanic 9.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Rich

Adrienne Rich (1929–2012)American poet, essayist and feminist
Buddy Rich (1917–1987)American jazz drummer and bandleader
Claude Rich (1929–2017)French actor
Marc Rich (1934–2013)American commodities trader
Irene Rich (1891–1988)American actress
Michael Rich (born 1969)German cyclist
Lucky Diamond Rich (born 1971)New Zealand-British Stunt performer
Adam Rich (1968–2023)American actor

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

Surnames like Rich

Also a first name

Rich has been given to 4,407 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1962. 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.