Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Ritchard

#16,736 most common boys' name of all time · #43,697 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1927–2000

Rank among boys
#16,736
Rank overall
#43,697 of 105,966
First appeared
1927
Years on the list
13 of 146
All-time
82
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1967 #2,707
Best rank
#2,707 1967
Girls Boys peak 10/yr
1940196019802000

Ritchard first appears in 1927. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
2000 — 6 6 #9,326
1998 — 7 7 #7,749
1996 — 5 5 #9,254
1970 — 6 6 #4,468
1969 — 7 7 #3,796
1968 — 5 5 #4,473
1967 — 10 10 #2,707
1966 — 9 9 #2,920
1960 — 6 6 #3,899
1958 — 5 5 #4,291
1957 — 5 5 #4,355
1953 — 5 5 #4,193
1927 — 6 6 #4,204