Richelle
#10,107 for girls in 2025, 9 births
- Peak · girls
- 1969 · 281 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 8,456since 1942
Richelle over time
Rank among girls' names. Richelle has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,107 | 9 |
| 2024 | #12,161 | 7 |
| 2023 | #9,616 | 10 |
| 2022 | #7,281 | 15 |
| 2021 | #6,414 | 18 |
| 2020 | #7,559 | 14 |
| 2019 | #8,597 | 12 |
| 2018 | #6,010 | 20 |
| 2017 | #5,191 | 25 |
| 2016 | #5,985 | 21 |
| 2015 | #5,288 | 25 |
| 2014 | #5,797 | 22 |
| 2013 | #4,243 | 34 |
| 2012 | #3,644 | 43 |
| 2011 | #4,244 | 34 |
| 2010 | #3,123 | 53 |
| 2009 | #2,672 | 68 |
| 2008 | #2,957 | 59 |
| 2007 | #2,992 | 59 |
| 2006 | #2,978 | 57 |
| 2005 | #3,126 | 50 |
| 2004 | #2,620 | 63 |
| 2003 | #2,465 | 66 |
| 2002 | #2,158 | 77 |
| 2001 | #2,512 | 61 |
| 2000 | #2,374 | 65 |
| 1999 | #1,844 | 86 |
| 1998 | #1,819 | 85 |
| 1997 | #1,741 | 88 |
| 1996 | #1,288 | 134 |
| 1995 | #1,301 | 128 |
| 1994 | #1,170 | 151 |
| 1993 | #1,023 | 180 |
| 1992 | #1,113 | 160 |
| 1991 | #896 | 218 |
| 1990 | #897 | 214 |
| 1989 | #789 | 241 |
| 1988 | #834 | 216 |
| 1987 | #817 | 214 |
| 1986 | #829 | 201 |
| 1985 | #858 | 187 |
| 1984 | #953 | 152 |
| 1983 | #832 | 184 |
| 1982 | #919 | 164 |
| 1981 | #816 | 195 |
| 1980 | #835 | 187 |
| 1979 | #771 | 208 |
| 1978 | #822 | 182 |
| 1977 | #905 | 156 |
| 1976 | #830 | 167 |
| 1975 | #759 | 187 |
| 1974 | #716 | 201 |
| 1973 | #618 | 249 |
| 1972 | #603 | 264 |
| 1971 | #682 | 225 |
| 1970 | #639 | 257 |
| 1969 | #590 | 281 |
| 1968 | #642 | 229 |
| 1967 | #702 | 193 |
| 1966 | #755 | 170 |
| 1965 | #894 | 126 |
| 1964 | #1,078 | 102 |
| 1963 | #964 | 121 |
| 1962 | #1,121 | 94 |
| 1961 | #1,005 | 116 |
| 1960 | #1,174 | 86 |
| 1959 | #1,370 | 61 |
| 1958 | #1,340 | 62 |
| 1957 | #1,366 | 60 |
| 1956 | #1,453 | 53 |
| 1955 | #1,597 | 41 |
| 1954 | #1,540 | 43 |
| 1953 | #1,707 | 34 |
| 1952 | #2,502 | 18 |
| 1951 | #2,064 | 23 |
| 1950 | #2,781 | 14 |
| 1949 | #2,514 | 16 |
| 1948 | #2,974 | 12 |
| 1947 | #3,240 | 11 |
| 1946 | #3,034 | 11 |
| 1945 | #4,025 | 6 |
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| 1942 | #4,622 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Richelle! It came in at #4,622, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1942–1944, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Richelle is popular in 1978
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Pennsylvania#420 · 1 in 3,474
- Arizona#522 · 1 in 3,277
- Wisconsin#533 · 1 in 5,793
- Michigan#577 · 1 in 5,232
- Indiana#591 · 1 in 5,799
Best ever in a state: #134 in Alaska, 1983.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Pennsylvania | #420 | 19 | 1 in 3,474 |
| Arizona | #522 | 5 | 1 in 3,277 |
| Wisconsin | #533 | 5 | 1 in 5,793 |
| Michigan | #577 | 11 | 1 in 5,232 |
| Indiana | #591 | 6 | 1 in 5,799 |
| Ohio | #609 | 11 | 1 in 6,269 |
| North Carolina | #721 | 5 | 1 in 6,474 |
| Illinois | #723 | 11 | 1 in 6,446 |
| Florida | #842 | 6 | 1 in 7,337 |
| California | #847 | 21 | 1 in 7,301 |
| Texas | #1,297 | 7 | 1 in 14,770 |
| New York | #1,604 | 5 | 1 in 19,665 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Richelle
- 2,054 spots since 2024 (#12,161 → #10,107)
- 2,548 spots since 2020 (#7,559 → #10,107)
- 4,819 spots since 2015 (#5,288 → #10,107)
- Biggest jump: 184 spots in 1965 (#1,078 → #894)
- Biggest drop: 217 spots in 1992 (#896 → #1,113)
- Debuted 1942
- Peaked 1969 at #590 (281 births)
- Births halved by 1995, 26 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 28 yrs · run 1965–1991
- Highest: 1 in 5,762 girls born in 1972 were named Richelle (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 178,585 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #590 in 1969, was only 1 in 6,004 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 24.8% of all girls named Richelle (2,096) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1940s | 61 | #2,514 (1949) | #3,402 |
| 1950s | 409 | #1,340 (1958) | #1,772 |
| 1960s | 1,518 | #590 (1969) | #893 |
| 1970s | 2,096 | #603 (1972) | #735 |
| 1980s | 1,941 | #789 (1989) | #848 |
| 1990s | 1,444 | #896 (1991) | #1,309 |
| 2000s | 625 | #2,158 (2002) | #2,685 |
| 2010s | 289 | #3,123 (2010) | #5,212 |
| 2020s | 73 | #6,414 (2021) | #8,856 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Richelle in 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
More about 1978
girls
1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 8,417 of them was named Richelle, which outranked 92.8% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).