How Many People Are Named Richa?
people named Richa are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 542,515 people in the US has this name
Based on 640 babies named Richa in Social Security records from 1968 to 2017, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
32 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Means "praise, verse, sacred text" in Sanskrit.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Richa in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Richa alive today is about 25 years old, and 71% are under 30. Half of them were between 18 and 31 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Richa first appears in the records in 1968 and was given most often in 2007, to 32 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2017.
Babies given the name each year, 1968 to 2017
🏆 Rank History
Richa has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #4,214, in 1998.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #4,214 (1998) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #5,101 in the 2000s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Richa alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Richa were born in New Jersey than in any other state: about 53 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Richa was given about 19.8 times as often in New Jersey.
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