Meaning not yet researched.
Ritchie: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 28 in 2025. Its best rank was #628 in 1964.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #628 in 1964; #3,926 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ritchie in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,926 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1964, at #628.
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Ritchie: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 28 boys in 2025. Peak: #628 in 1964 · most boys in one year: 153 (1964).
In 2025, 28 US boys were named Ritchie, making it the 3,926th most common boys’ name of the year, up 375 places from #4,301 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 25 boys named Ritchie in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #628, reached in 1964. That year also had the most boys given the name: 153. For comparison, it was #4,265 in 2015 and #985 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ritchie in 107 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 7 babies. In all, 4,170 US babies have been given the name, 1.2% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 1,035 babies named Ritchie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 313 US boys were named Ritchie; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 48. In 2025 that was about 1 in 61,003 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Ritchey and Ritchy are summarised on this page.
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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ritchey (19), Ritchy (5).
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.
No nicknames listed for Ritchie in the open dataset we use.
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 | — | — | 28 | #3,926 |
| 2024 | — | — | 25 | #4,301 |
| 2023 | — | — | 28 | #3,977 |
| 2022 | — | — | 37 | #3,267 |
| 2021 | — | — | 28 | #3,898 |
| 2020 | — | — | 33 | #3,399 |
| 2019 | — | — | 48 | #2,681 |
| 2018 | — | — | 29 | #3,773 |
| 2017 | — | — | 28 | #3,867 |
| 2016 | — | — | 29 | #3,753 |
| 2015 | — | — | 24 | #4,265 |
| 2014 | — | — | 29 | #3,673 |
| 2013 | — | — | 22 | #4,432 |
| 2012 | — | — | 22 | #4,502 |
| 2011 | — | — | 29 | #3,679 |
| 2010 | — | — | 18 | #5,203 |
| 2009 | — | — | 25 | #4,137 |
| 2008 | — | — | 14 | #6,334 |
| 2007 | — | — | 13 | #6,537 |
| 2006 | — | — | 21 | #4,477 |
| 2005 | — | — | 27 | #3,595 |
| 2004 | — | — | 18 | #4,750 |
| 2003 | — | — | 15 | #5,218 |
| 2002 | — | — | 23 | #3,753 |
| 2001 | — | — | 29 | #3,126 |
| 2000 | — | — | 18 | #4,344 |
| 1999 | — | — | 32 | #2,711 |
| 1998 | — | — | 30 | #2,769 |
| 1997 | — | — | 26 | #2,964 |
| 1996 | — | — | 31 | #2,525 |
| 1995 | — | — | 27 | #2,746 |
| 1994 | — | — | 28 | #2,669 |
| 1993 | — | — | 37 | #2,155 |
| 1992 | — | — | 43 | #1,905 |
| 1991 | — | — | 53 | #1,608 |
| 1990 | — | — | 52 | #1,609 |
| 1989 | — | — | 41 | #1,852 |
| 1988 | — | — | 55 | #1,418 |
| 1987 | — | — | 33 | #1,930 |
| 1986 | — | — | 24 | #2,346 |
| 1985 | — | — | 24 | #2,280 |
| 1984 | — | — | 22 | #2,348 |
| 1983 | — | — | 26 | #2,065 |
| 1982 | — | — | 16 | #2,950 |
| 1981 | — | — | 28 | #1,980 |
| 1980 | — | — | 29 | #1,949 |
| 1979 | — | — | 32 | #1,778 |
| 1978 | — | — | 38 | #1,534 |
| 1977 | — | — | 34 | #1,636 |
| 1976 | — | — | 46 | #1,312 |
| 1975 | — | — | 44 | #1,318 |
| 1974 | — | — | 63 | #1,042 |
| 1973 | — | — | 78 | #912 |
| 1972 | — | — | 72 | #959 |
| 1971 | — | — | 86 | #882 |
| 1970 | — | — | 87 | #866 |
| 1969 | — | — | 90 | #816 |
| 1968 | — | — | 105 | #732 |
| 1967 | — | — | 131 | #652 |
| 1966 | — | — | 127 | #658 |
| 1965 | — | — | 118 | #687 |
| 1964 | — | — | 153 | #628 |
| 1963 | — | — | 121 | #709 |
| 1962 | — | — | 97 | #775 |
| 1961 | — | — | 39 | #1,276 |
| 1960 | — | — | 54 | #1,057 |
| 1959 | — | — | 71 | #913 |
| 1958 | — | — | 43 | #1,183 |
| 1957 | — | — | 84 | #830 |
| 1956 | — | — | 103 | #724 |
| 1955 | — | — | 92 | #762 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,449 | 122 | #658 |
| 1953 | — | — | 82 | #795 |
| 1952 | — | — | 81 | #785 |
| 1951 | — | — | 90 | #735 |
| 1950 | — | — | 50 | #985 |
| 1949 | — | — | 47 | #1,023 |
| 1948 | — | — | 34 | #1,250 |
| 1947 | — | — | 27 | #1,443 |
| 1946 | — | — | 27 | #1,373 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,444 | 12 | #2,108 |
| 1944 | — | — | 15 | #1,868 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,236 | 18 | #1,752 |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,236 | 19 | #1,668 |
| 1941 | — | — | 12 | #2,180 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,787 | 11 | #2,292 |
| 1939 | — | — | 13 | #2,033 |
| 1938 | — | — | 10 | #2,450 |
| 1937 | — | — | 13 | #2,070 |
| 1936 | — | — | 8 | #2,809 |
| 1935 | — | — | 6 | #3,586 |
| 1933 | — | — | 10 | #2,508 |
| 1932 | — | — | 5 | #4,188 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,856 | 7 | #3,338 |
| 1930 | — | — | 8 | #3,239 |
| 1929 | — | — | 6 | #3,875 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,621 | 7 | #3,643 |
| 1927 | — | — | 7 | #3,710 |
| 1926 | — | — | 6 | #4,099 |
| 1924 | — | — | 7 | #3,791 |
| 1923 | — | — | 7 | #3,751 |
| 1922 | — | — | 7 | #3,804 |
| 1920 | — | — | 8 | #3,436 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,494 | — | — |
| 1916 | — | — | 6 | #3,809 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,835 | — | — |
| 1914 | — | — | 7 | #2,855 |
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).