Ritchie
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Diminutive of Richard, originally without intrusive t; not tied to one locality
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɹitʃi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ritchie is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 4.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 4.7K
- CNChina≈1 in 5K
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
- 472 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈280,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Diminutive of Richard, originally without intrusive t; not tied to one locality. Michael Rechy recorded in Inverness in 1305.
Sources 1
- Scottish Surnames
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Ritchie, 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)
Ritchie 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 | — | ≈280,000 est. | ≈1 in 5K | — | Ritchie | 14 |
| US United States | — | 29,040 | 1 in 11K | 29K | Ritchie | 472 |
| GB United Kingdom | #436 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | 3 | Ritchie | 255 |
| CA Canada | #491 | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | 2 | Ritchie | 215 |
| AU Australia | #412 | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | 3 | Ritchie | 200 |
| NZ New Zealand | #371 | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 5K | — | Ritchie | 139 |
| GY Guyana | — | 135 | 1 in 5.6K | 135 | — | 4 |
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; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; 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)
Ritchie 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, A Scottish diminutive of Rich (Richard); first attested Duncan Richie 1505 Black.
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, A surname transferred from the given name.
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]
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)
- Neil Ritchieb. 1897GBBritish Army officer (1897–1983)
- Michael Ritchieb. 1938USAmerican film director (1938–2001)
- Dennis Ritchieb. 1941USAmerican computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system and the C programming language (1941–2011)
- Sid Viciousb. 1957GBnot in their usual nameEnglish bassist (1957–1979)
- Guy Ritchieb. 1968GBEnglish filmmaker (born 1968)
- Bobby Shazamb. 1971USnot in their usual nameAmerican musician (born 1971)
- Jill Ritchieb. 1974USAmerican actress
- Darren Ritchieb. 1977USAmerican actor
- Reece Ritchieb. 1986GBBritish actor (born 1986)
- Charlotte Ritchieb. 1989GBBritish actress
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 68 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 29K | #1,217 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 28K | #1,131 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 28K | #1,223 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 135 | #490 |
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
- Where does the name Ritchie come from?
- Diminutive of Richard, originally without intrusive t; not tied to one locality. Michael Rechy recorded in Inverness in 1305. Recorded by Scottish Surnames.
- What are other forms of the name Ritchie?
- In the etymology graph, Rico, Rich and Rickard are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Ritchie?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹitʃi/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Ritchie mean?
- Recorded meaning: Diminutive of Richard, originally without intrusive t; not tied to one locality.
- In which country does Ritchie have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 281 thousand people named Ritchie in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ritchie.
- How common is the name Ritchie?
- In the United States, the national register counted 29,040 people named Ritchie in 2010, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Ritchie compared with other names?
- In New Zealand, Ritchie is the 371st most common surname of 87,225 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ritchie?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ritchieThe 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, “Ritchie” — the 371st most common surname in New Zealand. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.