Ricardo

Where Ricardo comes from

From Portuguese and Spanish Ricardo. Doublet of Richard.
— Wiktionary's entry for Ricardo
  • Portuguese
  • Spanish
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1000
    Ricardo Quaresma born
    Portuguese association football player
  2. 1888
    First appearance
    #917 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1978
    Ricardo Carvalho born
    Portuguese footballer
  4. 1992
    Peak, #115
    3,024 babies named Ricardo — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2013
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #253.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Portuguese or Spanish, equivalent to English Richard.
Namesakes
  • Ricardo Quaresma · Portuguese association football player, born 1000
  • Ricardo Carvalho · Portuguese footballer, born 1978
  • Ricardo Rodriguez · Swiss association football player, born 1992
  • Ricardo Lagos · Chilean politician, president of Chile from 2000 to 2006, born 1938
  • Ricardo Martinelli · 36th president of Panama from 2009 to 2014, born 1952

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.