Meaning not yet researched.
Rich: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 27 in 2025. Its best rank was #497 in 1962.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #497 in 1962; #4,017 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Rich in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,017 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1962, at #497.
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Rich: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 27 boys in 2025. Peak: #497 in 1962 · most boys in one year: 256 (1962).
In 2025, 27 US boys were named Rich, making it the 4,017th most common boys’ name of the year, up 39 places from #4,056 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 27 boys named Rich in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #497, reached in 1962. That year also had the most boys given the name: 256. For comparison, it was #5,241 in 2015 and #1,606 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rich in 129 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 8 babies. In all, 4,407 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 1,789 babies named Rich.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 284 US boys were named Rich; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 34. In 2025 that was about 1 in 63,262 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Rick (81,964 babies since 1880). The open nickname list we use links it to Dick and Rick.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
Rich is listed as a nickname for Aldrich, Richard, Ricky.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 27 | #4,017 |
| 2024 | — | — | 27 | #4,056 |
| 2023 | — | — | 28 | #3,976 |
| 2022 | — | — | 29 | #3,855 |
| 2021 | — | — | 34 | #3,406 |
| 2020 | — | — | 33 | #3,397 |
| 2019 | — | — | 30 | #3,699 |
| 2018 | — | — | 29 | #3,772 |
| 2017 | — | — | 30 | #3,654 |
| 2016 | — | — | 17 | #5,505 |
| 2015 | — | — | 18 | #5,241 |
| 2014 | — | — | 17 | #5,440 |
| 2013 | — | — | 18 | #5,126 |
| 2012 | — | — | 9 | #8,729 |
| 2011 | — | — | 9 | #8,623 |
| 2010 | — | — | 11 | #7,475 |
| 2009 | — | — | 18 | #5,268 |
| 2008 | — | — | 10 | #8,164 |
| 2007 | — | — | 28 | #3,769 |
| 2006 | — | — | 27 | #3,756 |
| 2005 | — | — | 23 | #4,031 |
| 2004 | — | — | 19 | #4,559 |
| 2003 | — | — | 18 | #4,576 |
| 2002 | — | — | 22 | #3,888 |
| 2001 | — | — | 19 | #4,260 |
| 2000 | — | — | 18 | #4,343 |
| 1999 | — | — | 22 | #3,564 |
| 1998 | — | — | 14 | #4,820 |
| 1997 | — | — | 14 | #4,628 |
| 1996 | — | — | 24 | #3,088 |
| 1995 | — | — | 17 | #3,816 |
| 1994 | — | — | 18 | #3,720 |
| 1993 | — | — | 15 | #4,182 |
| 1992 | — | — | 17 | #3,715 |
| 1991 | — | — | 14 | #4,178 |
| 1990 | — | — | 21 | #3,039 |
| 1989 | — | — | 24 | #2,673 |
| 1988 | — | — | 20 | #2,837 |
| 1987 | — | — | 14 | #3,472 |
| 1986 | — | — | 14 | #3,405 |
| 1985 | — | — | 20 | #2,576 |
| 1984 | — | — | 12 | #3,637 |
| 1983 | — | — | 11 | #3,819 |
| 1982 | — | — | 13 | #3,446 |
| 1981 | — | — | 17 | #2,758 |
| 1980 | — | — | 10 | #4,068 |
| 1979 | — | — | 15 | #2,993 |
| 1978 | — | — | 19 | #2,457 |
| 1977 | — | — | 15 | #2,882 |
| 1976 | — | — | 11 | #3,435 |
| 1975 | — | — | 19 | #2,345 |
| 1974 | — | — | 22 | #2,036 |
| 1973 | — | — | 31 | #1,579 |
| 1972 | — | — | 40 | #1,341 |
| 1971 | — | — | 79 | #918 |
| 1970 | — | — | 65 | #1,012 |
| 1969 | — | — | 89 | #820 |
| 1968 | — | — | 116 | #701 |
| 1967 | — | — | 122 | #676 |
| 1966 | — | — | 124 | #667 |
| 1965 | — | — | 166 | #592 |
| 1964 | — | — | 224 | #523 |
| 1963 | — | — | 229 | #527 |
| 1962 | — | — | 256 | #497 |
| 1961 | — | — | 232 | #523 |
| 1960 | — | — | 231 | #526 |
| 1959 | — | — | 229 | #518 |
| 1958 | — | — | 168 | #598 |
| 1957 | — | — | 136 | #657 |
| 1956 | — | — | 70 | #896 |
| 1955 | — | — | 24 | #1,602 |
| 1954 | — | — | 23 | #1,619 |
| 1953 | — | — | 26 | #1,501 |
| 1952 | — | — | 35 | #1,266 |
| 1951 | — | — | 17 | #1,892 |
| 1950 | — | — | 22 | #1,606 |
| 1949 | — | — | 27 | #1,425 |
| 1948 | — | — | 52 | #971 |
| 1947 | — | — | 48 | #1,049 |
| 1946 | — | — | 53 | #922 |
| 1945 | — | — | 26 | #1,321 |
| 1944 | — | — | 32 | #1,187 |
| 1943 | — | — | 41 | #1,071 |
| 1942 | — | — | 26 | #1,375 |
| 1941 | — | — | 20 | #1,577 |
| 1940 | — | — | 16 | #1,787 |
| 1939 | — | — | 12 | #2,141 |
| 1938 | — | — | 8 | #2,819 |
| 1937 | — | — | 8 | #2,858 |
| 1936 | — | — | 5 | #3,964 |
| 1935 | — | — | 8 | #2,898 |
| 1933 | — | — | 11 | #2,339 |
| 1932 | — | — | 7 | #3,308 |
| 1931 | — | — | 10 | #2,611 |
| 1929 | — | — | 5 | #4,436 |
| 1927 | — | — | 6 | #4,113 |
| 1926 | — | — | 5 | #4,708 |
| 1924 | — | — | 5 | #4,833 |
| 1923 | — | — | 9 | #3,126 |
| 1922 | — | — | 8 | #3,476 |
| 1921 | — | — | 10 | #2,945 |
| 1920 | — | — | 6 | #4,188 |
| 1919 | — | — | 9 | #3,076 |
| 1918 | — | — | 6 | #4,082 |
| 1917 | — | — | 5 | #4,461 |
| 1916 | — | — | 11 | #2,510 |
| 1915 | — | — | 9 | #2,785 |
| 1914 | — | — | 11 | #2,080 |
| 1913 | — | — | 6 | #2,741 |
| 1909 | — | — | 5 | #1,645 |
| 1904 | — | — | 7 | #1,041 |
| 1903 | — | — | 5 | #1,273 |
| 1902 | — | — | 5 | #1,280 |
| 1901 | — | — | 6 | #1,034 |
| 1900 | — | — | 8 | #1,034 |
| 1899 | — | — | 6 | #1,032 |
| 1896 | — | — | 5 | #1,235 |
| 1894 | — | — | 5 | #1,207 |
| 1893 | — | — | 6 | #1,006 |
| 1890 | — | — | 6 | #976 |
| 1889 | — | — | 5 | #1,085 |
| 1888 | — | — | 9 | #745 |
| 1887 | — | — | 8 | #734 |
| 1886 | — | — | 6 | #941 |
| 1885 | — | — | 5 | #1,071 |
| 1884 | — | — | 9 | #697 |
| 1882 | — | — | 6 | #926 |
| 1881 | — | — | 12 | #526 |
| 1880 | — | — | 8 | #732 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).