Richards

At the 2020 census, 126,138 Americans bore the surname Richards — 236th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 2,370.

By the numbers

People: 126,138
Rank: 236th
How common: 1 in 2,370
Per 100,000: 42.2

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 75.1%
Black, not Hispanic 15.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Richards

Keith Richards (born 1943)British musician, guitarist of the Rolling Stones
Theodore William Richards (1868–1928)United States chemist
Michael Richards (born 1949)American actor and comedian
Denise Richards (born 1971)American actress
Dickinson W. Richards (1895–1973)American physician, Nobel Prize recipient
Micah Richards (born 1988)English footballer
Ellen Swallow Richards (1842–1911)American chemist
George Maxwell Richards (1931–2018)President of Trinidad and Tobago

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

Surnames like Richards

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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.