Richters
surname · Latin script
Meaning: genitive singular of Richter
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɹɪktɚz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Richters is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- DEGermany
- USUnited States
- UGUganda
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
genitive singular of Richter
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
- Ferdinand Richtersb. 1849DEGerman zoologist (1849–1914)
- Marius Richtersb. 1878NLDutch painter (1878-1955)
- Naoko Richtersb. 1955JPJapanese educational researcher living in the Netherlands
- Ken Richtersb. 1955USstage actor
- Christian Richtersb. 1958DEphotographer
- Renate Richtersb. 1975NLDutch politician
- Oliver Richtersb. 1986DEphysicist and economist
- Grigorij Richtersb. 1987DEGerman director, activist and producer
- Olivier Richtersb. 1989NLDutch bodybuilder and actor
- Juliet RichtersAUsexual health researcher
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 475 | #4,105 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 337 | #63,879 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 337 | #56,687 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 314 | #63,524 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 17 | #100,824 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 14 | #47,506 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 8 | #134,434 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 7 | #99,625 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 6 | #94,070 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Richters mean, and where does it come from?
- genitive singular of Richter Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Richters?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹɪktɚz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Richters have the most bearers?
- Richters is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Richters?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/richtersThe 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, “Richters”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.