How rare is the name Richelle?

7,854 people in the United States have the first name Richelle, about 1 in 38,456. It ranks #2,904 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

RICHELLE

#2,904

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
7,854
About
1 in 38,456
This common or more
81.2%
Who bears it

Of the 7,854 people named Richelle, 62.9% reported their origin as White, 14.6% as Black and 9.2% as Asian or Pacific Islander. Virtually all are female (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Richelle peaked in 1969, when 281 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19422025
Peak year
1969
Births that year
281
In 2025*
9 ▼97%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 8,456 babies have been given the name since 1942. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Richelle by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #1,280. The largest share of babies named Richelle, 38.8%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1940s#6,38661
1950s#2,673409
1960s#1,4301,518
1970s#1,2802,096
1980s#1,4621,941
1990s#2,1201,444
2000s#4,624625
2010s#8,224289
2020s#14,28773
Silent Generation 1928–450.1%
Baby boom 1946–6411.6%
Generation X 1965–8038.8%
Millennials 1981–9634.8%
Generation Z 1997–1212%
2013 and later2.7%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Richelle is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Richelle has been most common in Washington (2.7×), Hawaii (2.3×), and California (2.2×), and least common in Georgia (0.23×).

5,256 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Richelle

1 other first name also has 7,854 people.

#2,904 Hang · 7,854

Either side of Richelle

#2,903 Kamal · 7,855#2,904 Hang · 7,854#2,906 Johnson · 7,851#2,907 Priyanka · 7,849

Spelled almost the same

5 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Richelle, most common first.

#16,056 Richele · 708#21,143 Richel · 483#29,557 Rickelle · 299#29,961 Richell · 293#38,064 Rickell · 203

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