Ricardo

given name · Portuguese · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ricardo is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is the 49th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A male given name from Portuguese or Spanish, equivalent to English Richard.

rarermore common
  • PTPortugal1 in 97◐
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 119
  • NZNew Zealand1 in 127

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈2.5M ●

across 11 countries

#34 ●

of 16M given names

8 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
634 ●

30M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 202 ◐

Poland

Spellings & scripts●

RichardLatin · English●23M records
РичардCyrillic · Russian●14K records
ריצ'רדHebrew · Hebrew●4.7K records
ᲠიჩარდGeorgian · Georgian●352 records
রিচার্ডBengali · Bangla●31 records
리처드Hangul · Korean●2 records
ΡικάρντοGreek · Greek●1 records
ରଚାରଡOdia · Odia●0 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Richard in US United States, GB United Kingdom, PH Philippines and 14 more, רישרד in FR France, Richárd in HU Hungary and Ричард in RU Russia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

A male given name from Portuguese or Spanish, equivalent to English Richard.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Ricardo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#492,880,1191.9M rec.—1.9KRicardo176
GB United Kingdom#91,732,2441.5M rec.—5Richard361
US United States#111,574,60020M rec.1 in 2111.6MRichard634
MX Mexico#431,186,184905K rec.—3KRicardo276
PH Philippines#9577,755533K rec.——Richard180
AU Australia#24556,685470K rec.—5Richard328
CA Canada#10513,416522K rec.—17Richard275
PE Peru#57463,755414K rec.——Ricardo136
VE Venezuela#49439,318158K rec.——Ricardo130
BR Brazil#58429,575436K rec.1 in 493470KRicardo276
CL Chile#52315,07330K rec.—144Ricardo182
DE Germany#103242,502224K rec.—1Richard263

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Portuguese7.5M45%
  • Spanish6.9M41%
  • English1.4M8%
  • 168K1%
  • Catalan77K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese7,537,61945%
Spanish6,872,13641%
English1,413,3428%
167,9821%
Catalan76,7791%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Ricardo is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name1.6M records spelled Ricardo25 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Venezuela, Netherlands

    Languages: English, German, Western Frisian

    Also written 'Ricardo, Ricardo', Rîcårdò, R̶i̶c̶a̶r̶d̶o̶, Rïcardo

  • a separate given name188K records spelled Ricardo2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, Spain, United Kingdom

    Also written Rícardo

  • Catalan given name146K records spelled Ricardo24 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, France, United States, Belgium

    Languages: Catalan, French

    Also written Ricãrdõ, Ŕicardo, Rīcardō, Rìcardó, Rïcàrdô

  • Polish given name25K records spelled Ricardo55 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States, Italy, Czechia

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

    Also written Riccardo, Rikardo, Рикардо, Рікардо, Рикарду

  • Indonesian given name19K records spelled Ricardo4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, United States, Spain

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Rícardó, Ricàrdö

  • German given name16K records spelled Ricardo49 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, Laos, Germany, United States

    Languages: German, Lao, Thai

    Also written Riccardo, ริคาร์โด, Richardo, ริคาร์โด้, Rícárdó

81 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Ricardo is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Portuguese, a male given name, equivalent to English Richard

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Portuguese, Amsterdam, Curaçao, London, England, Venezuela

    as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

  • In Swedish, Ricardo (Riccardo) är italienska, portugisiska och spanska former av → Richard.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In English, David, British economist

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In French, Forme hispanique de Richard; germanique ric- + hard- « puissant, fort ».

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

01K2K3K4K1900195020003K · 1998

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Ricardo in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1888–2025
Yearrecords
18886
18917
19015
19027
19038
19048
190710
19089
190914
19109
191117
191225
191317
191426
191537
191640
191746
191852
191961
192074
192154
192285
192381
1924114
1925138
192699
1927152
1928167
1929204
1930216
1931176
1932159
1933168
1934189
1935162
1936158
1937196
1938186
1939179
1940207
1941218
1942205
1943211
1944253
1945282
1946349
1947379
1948448
1949492
1950614
1951670
1952863
19531,051
19541,092
19551,104
19561,101
19571,182
19581,295
19591,346
19601,311
19611,245
19621,256
19631,327
19641,317
19651,279
19661,201
19671,290
19681,350
19691,573
19701,653
19711,670
19721,701
19731,631
19741,812
19751,726
19761,784
19771,724
19781,880
19792,076
19802,324
19812,364
19822,291
19832,179
19842,209
19852,139
19862,222
19872,124
19882,502
19892,735
19902,802
19912,853
19923,024
19932,947
19942,974
19952,871
19962,883
19972,926
19983,044
19992,987
20002,918
20012,853
20022,709
20032,762
20042,781
20052,626
20062,702
20072,779
20082,757
20092,303
20101,886
20111,635
20121,567
20131,430
20141,462
20151,340
20161,297
20171,168
20181,125
20191,018
2020963
2021946
2022920
2023876
2024871
2025833

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 125 years between 1888–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

190019201940196019802000Pablo Neruda, b. 1904Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, b. 1920Raúl Alfonsín, b. 1927Ricardo Lagos, b. 1938Ricardo Martinelli, b. 1952Ricardo, b. 1976Ricardo Carvalho, b. 1978Ricardo Costa, b. 1981Kaká, b. 1982Ricardo Quaresma, b. 1983
  • Pablo Nerudab. 1904CLnot in their usual nameChilean poet and politician (1904-1973)
  • Javier Pérez de Cuéllarb. 1920PEnot in their usual name5th Secretary-General of the United Nations (1920-2020)
  • Raúl Alfonsínb. 1927ARnot in their usual nameArgentine politician
  • Ricardo Lagosb. 1938CLChilean politician, president of Chile from 2000 to 2006
  • Ricardo Martinellib. 1952PA36th president of Panama from 2009 to 2014
  • Ricardob. 1976PTPortuguese footballer and coach
  • Ricardo Carvalhob. 1978PTPortuguese footballer
  • Ricardo Costab. 1981PTPortuguese footballer
  • Kakáb. 1982BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian association football player (born 1982)
  • Ricardo Quaresmab. 1983PTPortuguese association football player (born 1983)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 114 sources across 58 countries.

Official registers attesting Ricardo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—470K#79
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022430K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—428K#62
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020190K#293
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—79K#56
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—77K#120
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202439K#56
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—11K#47
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—7.8K#481
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)20204.4K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020203.5K#8,871
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20243.5K#2,107

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,481 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ricardo?
We estimate roughly 2.5 million people bear Ricardo (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Ricardo have the most bearers?
Ricardo is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled ricardo.
How common is Ricardo compared with other names?
In Argentina, Ricardo is the 49th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
Is Ricardo a male or female name?
Ricardo is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Ricardo mean?
Recorded meaning: A male given name from Portuguese or Spanish, equivalent to English Richard.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ricardo” — the 49th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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