Ricardo Boy Name

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The name Ricardo is of Spanish origin, and is an alternate form of Richard. The table below indicates the number of times the name Ricardo has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Ricardo**
Use of the Name Ricardo for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
113,439	102,932	66,195	28,630	13,938	5,483	2,739

The table below indicates the number of times the name Ricardo has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Ricardo first appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1891, which is the first year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Ricardo**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1891	830	7
1892
1893
1894
1895
1896
1897
1898
1899
1900
1901
1902
1903	898	8
1904	948	8
1905
1906
1907	920	10
1908
1909	795	14
1910
1911	815	17
1912	908	25
1913
1914
1915
1916
1917	956	46
1918	935	51
1919	847	61
1920	776	74
1921	959	54
1922	714	85
1923	738	79
1924	601	113
1925	520	139
1926	628	100
1927	493	152
1928	475	166
1929	413	202
1930	386	218
1931	428	176
1932	446	160
1933	427	165
1934	401	189
1935	449	162
1936	451	155
1937	397	197
1938	417	186
1939	426	179
1940	399	208
1941	394	216
1942	435	202
1943	431	209
1944	378	253
1945	357	279
1946	350	346
1947	349	379
1948	316	451
1949	308	486
1950	266	612
1951	257	670
1952	228	858
1953	210	1,050
1954	211	1,090
1955	216	1,103
1956	222	1,090
1957	219	1,183
1958	208	1,290
1959	210	1,339
1960	213	1,314
1961	221	1,240
1962	219	1,254
1963	211	1,320
1964	210	1,314
1965	198	1,279
1966	199	1,192
1967	188	1,294
1968	187	1,343
1969	176	1,575
1970	172	1,648
1971	165	1,667
1972	153	1,694
1973	151	1,629
1974	140	1,807
1975	143	1,722
1976	142	1,776
1977	147	1,717
1978	138	1,878
1979	130	2,069
1980	117	2,310
1981	117	2,359
1982	121	2,282
1983	121	2,173
1984	122	2,201
1985	131	2,135
1986	124	2,211
1987	131	2,116
1988	121	2,493
1989	119	2,729
1990	121	2,796
1991	117	2,841
1992	115	3,016
1993	120	2,936
1994	119	2,967
1995	126	2,864
1996	128	2,883
1997	129	2,923
1998	125	3,041
1999	126	2,981
2000	134	2,910
2001	138	2,842
2002	143	2,703
2003	148	2,744
2004	143	2,739
Totals:		113,439		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Ricardo as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Ricardo appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 95 times during the last 125 years.

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Ricardo Boy Name

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