Richmond
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Person from Richmond, a place-name meaning ‘strong hill’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Richmond is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 6.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 6.6K
- CACanada≈1 in 7.4K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 497 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈170,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Person from Richmond, a place-name meaning ‘strong hill’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Richmond 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.4K | — | Richmond | 19 |
| US United States | 37,053 | 1 in 9K | 37K | Richmond | 497 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Richmond | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈9,900 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | listed | Richmond | 242 |
| CA Canada | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 7.4K | 1 | Richmond | 169 |
| TD Chad | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | — | Richmond | 3 |
| CR Costa Rica | 1,074 | 1 in 4.7K | 1.1K | — | — |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | — | Richmond | 63 |
| GY Guyana | 699 | 1 in 1.1K | 699 | — | 11 |
| KY Cayman Islands | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Richmond | 6 |
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; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; 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)
Richmond is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from Richmond (Surrey, North Riding of Yorkshire), though some early examples may be from French places of the same name; first attested Roger de Richemund 1199 CartAntiq
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, merous places so called, in N France as well as in England.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, A common place name (Richmonds on Wikipedia):
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Charles Wallace Richmondb. 1868USAmerican ornithologist (1868-1932)
- John Carradineb. 1906USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor (1906-1988)
- Anthony B. Richmondb. 1942GBBritish cinematographer
- Branscombe Richmondb. 1955USAmerican actor
- Jeff Richmondb. 1961USAmerican composer, television actor and producer
- Richmond Arquetteb. 1963USAmerican actor
- Mitch Richmondb. 1965USAmerican basketball player (born 1965)
- Cedric Richmondb. 1973USAmerican politician (born 1973)
- Deon Richmondb. 1978USAmerican actor
- George Richmondb. 2000British cinematographer
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 64 sources across 35 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 37K | #934 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 36K | #882 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 35K | #970 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 1.1K | #455 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 699 | #153 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- 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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Richmond mean, and where does it come from?
- Person from Richmond, a place-name meaning ‘strong hill’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Richmond have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 165 thousand people named Richmond in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled richmond.
- Where is Richmond most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Richmond is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 1.1 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Richmond?
- In the United States, the national register counted 37,053 people named Richmond in 2010, about 1 in 9.0 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/richmondThe 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, “Richmond”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.