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Ritchie

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Ritchie is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 25 births. Its best rank was 628th, in 1964.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
250.00% of boys
Peak year
1964153 births
Best rank
#628in 1964
Since 1914
4,092people given the name
Babies named Ritchie, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

4,092 boys have been named Ritchie in the United States since 1914, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1964, with 153 births.

It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1968, and the 1960s alone account for 25%. It has spent 21 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadeboys named Ritchie
1910s13
1920s55
1930s80
1940s222
1950s818
1960s1,035
1970s580
1980s298
1990s359
2000s203
2010s278
2020s151

In 1964, its biggest year

Ritchie was the 628th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1964 were Michael, John, David, James and Robert. See all of 1964.

Names that rose and fell with Ritchie

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.