Richard
102
Babies in 2024
-44%
10-year change
1996
Peak · 1.09k
+6%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Richard
Richard peaked among UK boys' names in the late 1990s (1,089 babies in 1996) and has remained in active use — 102 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Richard reached its peak in 1996, when 1,089 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #62 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 102 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 8,565 boys have been officially registered with the name Richard in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 1,616 boys were registered with the name, starting from 181 in 2014 and ending at 102 in 2024.