Ritchie

At the 2020 census, 28,266 Americans bore the surname Ritchie — 1,223rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 10,600.

By the numbers

People: 28,266
Rank: 1,223rd
How common: 1 in 10,600
Per 100,000: 9.5

Where the name comes from

Origin a given name

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 88.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Black, not Hispanic 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Ritchie

Dennis M. Ritchie (1941–2011)American computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system and the C programming language
Guy Ritchie (born 1968)English filmmaker
Matt Ritchie (born 1989)association football player
Major Ritchie (1870–1955)English tennis player
Neil Ritchie (1897–1983)British Army officer
Jean Ritchie (1922–2015)American folk singer
Charlotte Ritchie (born 1989)British actress
Michael Ritchie (1938–2001)American film director

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

Surnames like Ritchie

Also a first name

Ritchie has been given to 4,170 American babies as a first name since 1914, peaking in 1964. 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.