Richard
Richard stands at #234 nationally in 2025, past its crest and settling. The peak was 1946, a name your child would share with a great-aunt, which is quietly part of its charm.
What Richard carries
Richard · Teutonic
“stern king”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Richard’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Richard, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Richard since 1880
Richard peaked in 1946 at #5; #234 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Richard is most common
Richard is most common in Vermont: 0.74% of the state's recorded boys' names in 2025. District of Columbia (0.4%) and Delaware (0.34%) follow.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Richard
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Robert
#92 in 2025 · Teutonic
Charles
#48 in 2025 · Teutonic
William
#9 in 2025 · Teutonic
Warren
#240 in 2025 · Teutonic
Edward
#224 in 2025 · Teutonic
Walter
#252 in 2025 · Teutonic
Carlos
#150 in 2025 · Teutonic
Aubrey
#146 in 2025 · Teutonic
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About Richard
How common is Richard today?
Richard stands at #234 nationally in 2025, past its crest and settling. The full curve since 1880 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
What is the recorded meaning of Richard?
The reference we cite records “stern king”, of Teutonic origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Which names sit near Richard?
By our fixed recipe the closest are Robert, Charles and William, scored on origin, era, shape and how common they are. The sibling matcher runs the same recipe against the names already in your house.
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