How Many People Are Named Ritchie?
people named Ritchie are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 102,208 people in the US has this name
Based on 4,170 babies named Ritchie in Social Security records from 1914 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
153 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of RICHIE.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Ritchie in English. Counting Ritchie and these spellings together, about 9,704 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Ritchie, 0.5% were girls and 99.5% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 1940s: 9.4% of the babies were girls then and 0% in the 2020s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Ritchie alive today is about 47 years old, and 42% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 32 and 63 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Ritchie first appears in the records in 1914 and was given most often in 1964, to 153 babies. In 2025, 28 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1914 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Ritchie has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #628, in 1964. In 2025 it ranked #3,925.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #3,925 |
| Best rank | #628 (1964) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #755 in the 1960s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Ritchie alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Ritchie were born in California than in any other state: about 464 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Ritchie was given 4.2 times as often in North Carolina, 3.2 times in California and 2.6 times in Tennessee.
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