Ricardo

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Ricardo is ranked 375th among boys in 2024 (865 births). Its best rank was 115th, in 1992.

Rank in 2024: #375down 3 from 2023
Births in 2024: 8650.05% of boys
Peak year: 19983,044 births
Best rank: #115in 1992
Since 1888: 145,612people given the name

Babies named Ricardo, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

145,612 boys have been named Ricardo in the United States since 1888, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1998, with 3,044 births — 0.16% of all boys recorded that year.

It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 256 → 375).

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1990, and the 1990s alone account for 20%. It has spent 115 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 Ricardo
1880s	6
1890s	7
1900s	61
1910s	330
1920s	1,168
1930s	1,789
1940s	3,044
1950s	10,317
1960s	13,149
1970s	17,660
1980s	23,091
1990s	29,308
2000s	27,189
2010s	13,924
2020s	4,569

In 1998, its biggest year

Ricardo was the 126th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1998 were Michael, Jacob, Matthew, Joshua and Christopher. See all of 1998.

Names that rose and fell with Ricardo

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.