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The name Richard is of Germanic origin, and means strong in rule. The table below indicates the number of times the name Richard 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 Richard**
Use of the Name Richard for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
2,516,265	1,108,636	276,479	64,781	27,176	9,800	4,780

The table below indicates the number of times the name Richard has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. 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 Richard**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	23	728
1881	22	641
1882	22	749
1883	21	649
1884	23	748
1885	26	672
1886	23	721	881	8
1887	25	623
1888	26	774
1889	24	712
1890	24	744
1891	27	609
1892	27	803
1893	26	732
1894	25	809
1895	31	727
1896	26	834
1897	31	704
1898	26	874
1899	28	744
1900	23	1,155
1901	26	784
1902	26	909
1903	26	866
1904	24	959
1905	22	1,036
1906	23	1,084
1907	22	1,236
1908	23	1,244
1909	21	1,424
1910	21	1,653
1911	20	2,028
1912	19	4,182
1913	19	5,101
1914	17	6,677
1915	15	9,150
1916	15	10,146
1917	14	10,917
1918	12	12,330
1919	12	12,470	809	76
1920	10	15,006
1921	10	16,371	882	71
1922	9	17,559	851	75
1923	9	18,873	833	78
1924	8	21,261	770	94
1925	8	23,277	712	108
1926	7	25,119	656	122
1927	6	26,758	558	162
1928	6	28,738	488	198
1929	6	29,555	469	203
1930	5	32,110	532	164
1931	5	31,763	542	149
1932	5	31,769	552	139
1933	5	31,276	570	126
1934	5	33,140	564	129
1935	5	33,899	562	130
1936	5	33,467	685	95
1937	5	32,927	627	118
1938	5	34,357	618	122
1939	5	35,406	662	106
1940	5	37,401	665	108
1941	5	39,036	655	118
1942	5	43,559	659	130
1943	5	46,121	700	119
1944	5	45,544	788	95
1945	5	46,018	709	111
1946	5	58,614	752	119
1947	5	58,332	717	141
1948	7	50,839	784	121
1949	7	50,817	828	113
1950	7	50,964	905	97
1951	7	54,311	952	96
1952	7	58,339	904	105
1953	7	58,187	790	136
1954	7	56,968	939	106
1955	7	53,468	871	126
1956	7	52,816	877	130
1957	8	52,374	962	116
1958	8	49,906	945	120
1959	8	47,173	919	129
1960	8	43,526	958	125
1961	8	41,066	950	130
1962	8	39,409	887	142
1963	8	40,767	852	151
1964	8	40,077	897	135
1965	8	36,837	861	135
1966	8	34,437	823	147
1967	8	33,561	768	165
1968	8	32,974	788	162
1969	10	31,077	775	174
1970	10	30,432	845	160
1971	11	26,117	915	143
1972	14	22,307	903	139
1973	16	19,944	906	138
1974	17	18,623
1975	16	17,678	963	130
1976	19	16,747	998	127
1977	20	17,427
1978	21	16,719
1979	25	16,695
1980	26	16,632
1981	27	16,833
1982	27	16,697
1983	27	15,866
1984	27	15,575
1985	28	15,315
1986	29	14,993
1987	30	14,387
1988	32	14,114
1989	33	14,122
1990	35	13,574
1991	34	12,536
1992	40	11,323
1993	40	10,221
1994	41	9,510
1995	42	8,773
1996	45	8,177
1997	51	7,233
1998	55	6,945
1999	61	6,477
2000	65	6,336
2001	73	5,748
2002	77	5,292
2003	86	5,020
2004	92	4,780
Totals:		2,516,265		7,112

During the last 125 years, parents have used Richard as a boy's name about 99% of the time and less frequently (about 0% of the time) as a girl's name.

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