Ritchie
Ritchie reached its high-water mark in 1964 at number 627, and has been recorded 4,170 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 3,848th. About 3,300 Ritchies are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 54.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Ritchie boys named Ritchie
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 4,170
- Estimated living today
- 3,300
- Median age today
- 54
- Peak year
- 1964
- Best rank
- 627th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,848th
- First recorded
- 1914
- Girls / boys
- 50 / 4,120
How old the living Ritchies are
born that year still alive today
Of the 4,170 babies given the name since 1914, about 3,300 are alive — 80 in every hundred. Roughly 490 of them are children and 730 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1971 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Ritchies
- Ritchie Blackmore (born 1945)British guitarist
- Ritchie Valens (1941–1959)American musician
- Ritchie De Laet (born 1988)Belgian association football player
- Ritchie Coster (born 1967)actor
- Ritchie Torres (born 1988)American politician
- Ritchie Jones (born 1986)English footballer
People named Ritchie with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Ritchie is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Ritchie is most concentrated in North Carolina (3.9×), California (3.4×), Tennessee (2.4×), Louisiana (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1964
The most popular boys’ names the year Ritchie peaked:
Ritchie elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Ritchie | 295 | 868th |
| England and Wales boys | Ritchie | 284 | 814th |
| Scotland boys | Ritchie | 270 | 227th |
| Belgium boys | Ritchie | 18 | 853rd |
| Ireland boys | Ritchie | 3 | 451st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Ritchie: rank by region
In 2000, Ritchie was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Ritchie | 715 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Related names
Ritchie against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.