Rihards
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rihards is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Vīrieša vārds.
- LVLatvia1 in 372(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 21K
- SESweden1 in 213K
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 Rihards 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.
- Latvia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 32 (measured from records)
- 1 in 372 (inferred from the name graph)
5,056 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Рихардс in EE Estonia.
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)
Vīrieša vārds
Sources 1
- Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rihards 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.
5,056 people counted by PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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: PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Rihards Zariņšb. 1869LVLatvian graphic artist (1869–1939)
- Rihards Pīksb. 1941LVLatvian politician (born 1941)
- Rihards Eigimsb. 1962LVLatvian politician
- Rihards Dubrab. 1964LVLatvian composer
- Rihards Kozlovskisb. 1969LVLatvian politician and lawyer (born 1969)
- Rihards Butkusb. 1972LVLatvian association football player
- Rihards Zalupeb. 1983LVLatvian composer, producer and lecturer
- Rihards Kolsb. 1984LVLatvian politician
- Rihards Kuksiksb. 1988LVLatvian basketball player (born 1988)
- Rihards Bukartsb. 1995LVLatvian ice hockey 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 5.1K | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 5.1K | #100 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 48 | #13,948 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 26 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 25 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 24 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 23 | #4,023 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 23 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 23 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 21 | #6,277 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 19 | #1,548 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 18 | #6,517 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- What does the name Rihards mean?
- Recorded meaning: Vīrieša vārds
- Is Rihards a male or female name?
- Rihards 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.
- What are other forms of the name Rihards?
- In the etymology graph, Richard, Ricardo and Rick are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Rihards have the most bearers?
- In Latvia, the national register counted about 5.1 thousand people named Rihards, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rihards.
- Where is Rihards most common?
- Rihards is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 372 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Rihards?
- In Latvia, the national register counted 5,056 people named Rihards, about 1 in 372 residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rihardsThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Rihards”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.