Rihards
given name · Latvian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rihards is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is the 49th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Latvian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Vīrieša vārds.
- 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 ●
- #34 ●
- 8 ●
- Sources
- 634 ●
- 1 in 202 ◐
across 11 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
30M records
Official registry-verified
Poland
Spellings & scripts●
3 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Richard in US United States, GB United Kingdom, PH Philippines and 14 more, Ricardo in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, MX Mexico and 7 more, רישרד in FR France and Richárd in HU Hungary.
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●
Vīrieša vārds
Sources 1
- Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #49 | 2,880,119 | 1.9M rec. | — | 1.9K | Ricardo | 176 |
| GB United Kingdom | #9 | 1,732,244 | 1.5M rec. | — | 5 | Richard | 361 |
| US United States | #11 | 1,574,600 | 20M rec. | 1 in 211 | 1.6M | Richard | 634 |
| MX Mexico | #43 | 1,186,184 | 905K rec. | — | 3K | Ricardo | 276 |
| PH Philippines | #9 | 577,755 | 533K rec. | — | — | Richard | 180 |
| AU Australia | #24 | 556,685 | 470K rec. | — | 5 | Richard | 328 |
| CA Canada | #10 | 513,416 | 522K rec. | — | 17 | Richard | 275 |
| PE Peru | #57 | 463,755 | 414K rec. | — | — | Ricardo | 136 |
| VE Venezuela | #49 | 439,318 | 158K rec. | — | — | Ricardo | 130 |
| BR Brazil | #58 | 429,575 | 436K rec. | 1 in 493 | 470K | Ricardo | 276 |
| CL Chile | #52 | 315,073 | 30K rec. | — | 144 | Ricardo | 182 |
| DE Germany | #103 | 242,502 | 224K rec. | — | 1 | Richard | 263 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Latvian7.4K82%
- English3103%
- Norwegian Bokmål2523%
- German1412%
- Finnish1362%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Latvian | 7,355 | 82% |
| English | 310 | 3% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 252 | 3% |
| German | 141 | 2% |
| Finnish | 136 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2011 | 11 |
| 2012 | 14 |
| 2013 | 16 |
| 2014 | 16 |
| 2015 | 16 |
| 2016 | 24 |
| 2017 | 26 |
| 2018 | 23 |
| 2019 | 23 |
| 2020 | 25 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 10 years between 2011–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Rihards Zariņšb. 1869LVLatvian graphic artist (1869–1939)
- Rihards Pīksb. 1941LVLatvian politician (born 1941)
- Rihards Eigimsb. 1962LVLatvian politician
- Rihards Dubrab. 1964LVLatvian composer
- Rihards Kozlovskisb. 1969LVLatvian politician and lawyer (born 1969)
- Rihards Butkusb. 1972LVLatvian association football player
- Rihards Zalupeb. 1983LVLatvian composer, producer and lecturer
- Rihards Kolsb. 1984LVLatvian politician
- Rihards Kuksiksb. 1988LVLatvian basketball player (born 1988)
- Rihards Bukartsb. 1995LVLatvian ice hockey player
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 14 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 5.1K | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 5.1K | #100 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 252 | #4,023 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 117 | #4,766 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 48 | #13,948 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 26 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 25 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 24 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 23 | #3,988 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 23 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 23 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 21 | #6,277 |
Reference works 2
- 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 · 34 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Rihards?
- We estimate roughly 2.5 million people bear Rihards (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Rihards have the most bearers?
- Rihards is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled ricardo.
- How common is Rihards compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Rihards is the 49th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
- Is Rihards a male or female name?
- Rihards 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 Rihards mean?
- Recorded meaning: Vīrieša vārds
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About this data
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Rihards” — the 49th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.