Richie
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Pet form of Richard. The suffix -ie was originally characteristic of Scotland and northern England, but the name is now found elsewhere
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 36 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/ˈɹɪt͡ʃi/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Richie is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 5.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- IEIreland≈1 in 6Kfew records
- GHGhana≈1 in 10Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 430 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈21,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Pet form of Richard. The suffix -ie was originally characteristic of Scotland and northern England, but the name is now found elsewhere. In some cases it represents a transferred use of the surname derived from the Scottish pet name. Variant: Ritchie (probably also a transferred use of the surname spelled thus).
Cited for this meaning 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Richie, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Richie 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #965 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | — | Richie | 100 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈8,100 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Richie | 48 |
| US United States | — | 7,058 | 1 in 47K | 7K | Richie | 430 |
| GH Ghana | #310 | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Richie | 30 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 27K | 3 | Richie | 185 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 26K | 3 | Richie | 129 |
| IE Ireland | #372 | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 6K | — | Richie | 76 |
| GY Guyana | — | 66 | 1 in 11K | 66 | — | 2 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Richie is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A diminutive of the male given name Richard.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, little Rich (ii)
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
In English, Lionel B., Jr., US singer
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In German, ) Ritchie ['ntji]: männl. Vom., englische Koseform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Scottish, English, and Australian: pet form of RICHARD . The suffix - ie was originally characteristic of Scotland and northern England, but the name is now found elsewhere. In some cases it represents a transferred use of the surname derived from the Scottish pet name. Variant: Ritchie (probably also a transferred use of the surname spelled thus) .
as a word
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)- Richie Ashburnb. 1927USAmerican baseball player (1927–1997)
- Richie Gintherb. 1930USAmerican racing driver (1930-1989)
- Richie Guerinb. 1932USAmerican basketball player and coach
- Richie Havensb. 1941USAmerican singer-songwriter and guitarist (1941–2013)
- Richie Renb. 1966TWTaiwanese actor-singer
- Richie Hawtinb. 1970CAEnglish-Canadian electronic musician and record producer
- Richie Faulknerb. 1980GBBritish guitarist (born 1980)
- Richie Campbellb. 1983GBBritish actor
- Richie Porteb. 1985AUAustralian racing cyclist
- Richie Laryeab. 1995CACanadian soccer player
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)62 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 36 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 6.7K | #3,113 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 354 | #3,113 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 85 | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 66 | #528 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 12 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2023 | 3 | #728 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2015 | 3 | #415 |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 1965 | 3 | — |
| AU Australia | AU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD) | 2015 | 1 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 2015 | 1 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2024 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | A Concise Dictionary of First Names (Hanks & Hodges, 2001) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- 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)
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
- Is Richie a male or female name?
- Richie is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Netherlands (Meertens NVB).
- What are other forms of the name Richie?
- In the etymology graph, Ricardo, Rick and Ricky are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Richard.
- What does the name Richie mean, and where does it come from?
- Pet form of Richard. The suffix -ie was originally characteristic of Scotland and northern England, but the name is now found elsewhere. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How do you pronounce Richie?
- It depends on the language: in English /ˈɹɪt͡ʃi/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /riʝe/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Richie have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 21 thousand people named Richie in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled richie.
- How common is the name Richie?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,058 people named Richie in 2020, about 1 in 47 thousand residents.
- How common is Richie compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Richie is the 965th most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Richie?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/richieThe 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, “Richie” — the 965th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.