Rikhard
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Richard, as the name of kings and other historical persons
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɹɪkhɑɹd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rikhard is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 9th most common given name.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 92as Ricardo(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 105as Richard
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 108as Richard
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Rikhard itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #25 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 702 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 92 (inferred from the name graph)
1,575,998 named Richard, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Portugal, est., as Ricardo
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Richard in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 3 more and Ricardo in BR Brazil, PT Portugal.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Richard, as the name of kings and other historical persons.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rikhard counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #9 | 1,575,998as Richard | 1 in 211 | 1.6M | Richard | 702 |
| GB United Kingdom | #9 | ≈630,000 est. | ≈1 in 105 | 3.8K | Richard | 469 |
| BR Brazil | #29 | 429,575as Ricardo | 1 in 493 | 470K | Ricardo | 287 |
| PH Philippines | #7 | ≈380,000 est. | ≈1 in 290 | — | Richard | 195 |
| CA Canada | #9 | ≈270,000 est. | ≈1 in 139 | 17 | Richard | 355 |
| PT Portugal | #13 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 92 | listed | Ricardo | 258 |
| NZ New Zealand | #8 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 108 | — | Richard | 227 |
| IE Ireland | #7 | ≈43,000 est. | ≈1 in 120 | — | Richard | 183 |
1,575,998 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jussi Merinenb. 1873FInot in their usual nameFinnish politician
- Richard Oswaldb. 1880ATAustrian film director (1880–1963)
- Yrjö Valkamab. 1887FInot in their usual nameFinnish politician
- Rikhard Ruthb. 1889FIFinnish novelist
- Emil Filenb. 1890FInot in their usual nameFinnish sculptor (1890–1958)
- Väinö Valveb. 1895FInot in their usual nameFinnish Jäger general and politician
- Rikhard Sotamaab. 1910FIFinnish physician
- Antti Alhab. 1917FInot in their usual nameFinnish physician
- Kai R. Lehtonenb. 1930FInot in their usual nameFinnish teacher, journalist and author
- Rainer Frimanb. 1958FInot in their usual nameFinnish Roma writer, musician and journalist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2021 | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Rikhard mean, and where does it come from?
- Richard, as the name of kings and other historical persons. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Rikhard?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹɪkhɑɹd/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.
- Is Rikhard a male or female name?
- Rikhard is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Rikhard?
- In the etymology graph, Richard, Ricardo and Rick are forms of the same name in other languages; Riku is a recorded short or pet form.
- In which country does Rikhard have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.6 million people named Richard, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Rikhard?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,575,998 people named Richard in 2020, about 1 in 211 residents.
- How common is Rikhard compared with other names?
- In the United States, Rikhard is the 9th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rikhardThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Rikhard” — the 9th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.