Rich

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Rich is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 27 births. Its best rank was 497th, in 1962.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 270.00% of boys
Peak year: 1962255 births
Best rank: #497in 1962
Since 1880: 4,381people given the name

Babies named Rich, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

4,381 boys have been named Rich in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1962, with 255 births.

It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1963, and the 1960s alone account for 41%. It has spent 25 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Rich
1880s	68
1890s	28
1900s	36
1910s	57
1920s	54
1930s	69
1940s	341
1950s	750
1960s	1,790
1970s	316
1980s	155
1990s	176
2000s	202
2010s	188
2020s	151

In 1962, its biggest year

Rich was the 497th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1962 were Michael, David, John, James and Robert. See all of 1962.

Names that rose and fell with Rich

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.