Ricard

surname · Latin script

Meaning: French surname derived from Richard; noted as a business family name in the text

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ʁikaʁ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Ricard is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance≈1 in 8.2K(inferred from the name graph)
  • CACanada≈1 in 16K
  • USUnited States1 in 111K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

France (inferred from the name graph)

≈8,300 people, est.

Sources
282 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 8.2K (inferred from the name graph)

France, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

French surname derived from Richard; noted as a business family name in the text.

Sources 1

  • Tên Họ Người Việt Nam

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ricard 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.

Where Ricard is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France#506≈8,300 est.≈1 in 8.2K981Ricard282
US United States—2,9841 in 111K3KRicard188
CA Canada—≈2,300 est.≈1 in 16K—Ricard137
GB United Kingdom—≈600 est.≈1 in 110K44Ricard38
IT Italy—≈280 est.≈1 in 226K1Ricard7
LB Lebanon—≈55 est.≈1 in 99K—Ricard1
MD Moldova—≈36 est.≈1 in 92K2—1
IS Iceland—≈4 est.≈1 in 97K3——

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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); e-services.md — living population register. 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ricard is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Ričard, Rîcârd, Rïcard

  • Portuguese surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Spain, Canada

    Also written Riçard

  • French given name27 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Canada, United Kingdom

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Richard, Richárd, Rïchärd, Richàrd, Rïchârd

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Ričard, Ricarḍ

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Canada, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Ričard

  • Danish surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, United States, Sweden, Canada

    Languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian

    Also written Ričard

56 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Ricard is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, a serving of pastis, especially Pernod Ricard

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In French, Germanic ric- + hard- « puissant, fort »; associé à saint Richard de Chichester (fête 3 avril).

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • In French, Forme de Richard, du germ. *ric* « puissant » + *hard* « fort ».

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • In French, Même origine que Richard.

    as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Louis Ricard, b. 1839Paul Ricard, b. 1909Jean-François Revel, b. 1924Jean-Pierre Ricard, b. 1944Patrick Ricard, b. 1945Matthieu Ricard, b. 1946René Ricard, b. 1946François Ricard, b. 1947Anouk Ricard, b. 1970Hamilton Ricard, b. 1974

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalMadame, Monsieur,Dear Ricard, (English)
InformalMadame, Monsieur,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 53 sources across 27 countries.

Official registers attesting Ricard
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020103K#10,708
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.9K#10,621
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020002.8K#10,578
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19511.4K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19611.3K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19411.3K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991981—
GB United KingdomSurnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register)200244#55,026
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 6

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Ricard mean, and where does it come from?
French surname derived from Richard; noted as a business family name in the text. Recorded by Tên Họ Người Việt Nam.
How do you pronounce Ricard?
A machine transcription gives /ʁikaʁ/ (IPA) for French.
What are other forms of the name Ricard?
In the etymology graph, Rich, Ritchie and Rickard are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Ricard have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 8.3 thousand people named Ricard in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ricard.
How common is the name Ricard?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,984 people named Ricard in 2010, about 1 in 111 thousand residents.
How common is Ricard compared with other names?
In France, Ricard is the 506th most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Ricard” — the 506th most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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