Rìch
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rìch is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English riche (“strong, powerful, rich”), from Old English rīċe (“powerful, mighty, great, high-ranking, rich, wealthy, strong, potent”), from Proto-West Germanic *rīkī (“powerful, rich”),.
- GHGhana≈1 in 2.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 4.5K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Rìch itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #954 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 518 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)
49,481 people, 2010
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ghana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Rich in CA Canada, NZ New Zealand, SG Singapore and 1 more, Richey in US United States and Leach in GB United Kingdom.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Middle Englishriche“strong“strong, powerful, rich”(measured from records)
- Old Englishrīċe“powerful“powerful, mighty, great, high-ranking, rich, wealthy, strong, potent”(measured from records)
- Proto-West Germanic*rīkī“powerful“powerful, rich”(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*rīkijaz“kingly“kingly, powerful, rich”(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*rīks“king“king, ruler”(measured from records)
- Proto-Celtic*rīxs(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*h₃rḗǵs(measured from records)
From Middle English riche (“strong, powerful, rich”), from Old English rīċe (“powerful, mighty, great, high-ranking, rich, wealthy, strong, potent”), from Proto-West Germanic *rīkī (“powerful, rich”), from Proto-Germanic *rīkijaz (“kingly, powerful, rich”), from Proto-Germanic *rīks (“king, ruler”), an early borrowing from Proto-Celtic *rīxs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs. Reinforced by Old French riche, from the same West Germanic source.
Cited for this meaning 7
- A concise dictionary of first names
- A dictionary of surnames
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Rìch is found
(measured from records)Rìch counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #283 | 49,481 | 1 in 6.7K | 49K | Richey | 518 |
| GB United Kingdom | #246 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | 500 | Leach | 257 |
| GH Ghana | #217 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Rich | 43 |
| BR Brazil | — | 10,225as Ricci | 1 in 21K | 10K | — | 2 |
| CA Canada | #307 | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | 2 | Rich | 180 |
| SG Singapore | #438 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 5K | — | Rich | 40 |
| NZ New Zealand | #253 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | 10 | Rich | 81 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 898as Ricci | 1 in 3.8K | 898 | — | — |
49,481 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling rich. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Rìch mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English riche (“strong, powerful, rich”), from Old English rīċe (“powerful, mighty, great, high-ranking, rich, wealthy, strong, potent”), from Proto-West Germanic *rīkī (“powerful, rich”),… Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and A dictionary of surnames and 5 other sources.
- Is Rìch a male or female name?
- Rìch is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Rìch?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 49 thousand people named Rìch, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled richey. After it come United Kingdom, Ghana, Brazil and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Rìch?
- In the United States, the national register counted 49,481 people named Rìch in 2010, about 1 in 6.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Rìch compared with other names?
- In the United States, Rìch is the 283rd most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/r%C3%ACchThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Rìch” — the 283rd most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.