Ricardo

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Ricardo: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Ricardo: Recorded since 1955, its highest recorded position is #349, and it stood at #785 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
66times a registrar ranked it
70years from first to last
#349highest recorded position
15groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#472
1997	#427
1998	#390
1999	#356
2000	#453
2001	#473
2002	#524
2003	#546
2004	#470
2005	#666
2006	#560
2007	#603
2008	#757
2009	#667
2010	#645
2011	#852
2012	#748
2013	#720
2014	#695
2015	#821
2016	#946
2017	#888
2018	#1061
2019	#929
2020	#878
2021	#939
2022	#1179
2023	#1175
2024	#1517

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in 31 of the 44 years from 1955 to 1998.

In 2024: #785 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #1517 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1955–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1955
First recorded at #398 among boys in Norway in 1955 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1955–1998
Highest recorded position: #349 among boys in Norway, in 1956 (recorded 1955–1998).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1517 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Ricardo appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 31 years beginning in 1955, and has registered 200 births with the name.

Ricardo across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Ricardo's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Boys	#398 (1955)	#349 (1956)	#526 (1998)	31 of 44	200 (1955–1998)	13 (1982)
England and Wales · Boys	#472 (1996)	#356 (1999)	#1517 (2024)	29 of 29	1,169 (1996–2024)	65 (1999)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#409 (2001)	#375 (2003)	#785 (2024)	6 of 24	23 (2001–2024)	5 (2003)

Ricardo by decade in Norway · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Ricardo in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1950s	12	2 of 10	6
1960s	25	5 of 10	5
1970s	50	9 of 10	6
1980sbusiest	86	10 of 10	9
1990s	27	5 of 10	5

Across Norway · Boys, the 1980s were its busiest decade, averaging 9 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Ricardo appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1955 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #349 in Norway in 1956.

Ricardo's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#1517	17	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1175	24	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1179	23	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#939	32	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#878	33	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#929	31	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1061	26	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#888	35	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#946	31	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#821	38	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#695	47	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#720	45	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#748	44	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#852	34	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#645	50	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#667	46	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#757	38	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#603	49	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#560	52	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#666	39	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#470	56	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#546	42	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#524	40	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#473	44	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#453	45	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#356	65	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#390	57	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#427	47	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#472	39	High	Verified
1998	Norway	male	#526	5	High	Verified
1996	Norway	male	#594	4	High	Verified
1993	Norway	male	#480	7	High	Verified
1992	Norway	male	#562	5	High	Verified
1990	Norway	male	#540	6	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#393	11	High	Verified
1988	Norway	male	#481	8	High	Verified
1987	Norway	male	#589	5	High	Verified
1986	Norway	male	#482	8	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#517	7	High	Verified
1984	Norway	male	#597	5	High	Verified
1983	Norway	male	#481	8	High	Verified
1982	Norway	male	#357	13	High	Verified
1981	Norway	male	#356	12	High	Verified
1980	Norway	male	#442	9	High	Verified
1979	Norway	male	#544	6	High	Verified
1978	Norway	male	#461	8	High	Verified
1977	Norway	male	#382	11	High	Verified
1976	Norway	male	#620	4	High	Verified
1975	Norway	male	#626	4	High	Verified
1973	Norway	male	#608	4	High	Verified
1972	Norway	male	#612	4	High	Verified
1971	Norway	male	#570	5	High	Verified
1970	Norway	male	#590	4	High	Verified
1969	Norway	male	#538	5	High	Verified
1967	Norway	male	#543	4	High	Verified
1966	Norway	male	#507	5	High	Verified
1965	Norway	male	#498	5	High	Verified
1963	Norway	male	#446	6	High	Verified
1956	Norway	male	#349	7	High	Verified
1955	Norway	male	#398	5	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#785	3	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	male	#623	4	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	male	#698	3	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	male	#473	5	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	male	#375	5	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	male	#409	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1955 and 2024, ranked in 58 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #349, first reached in 1956.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 65 births, registered in England and Wales in 1999.

Its record falls into 7 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 6 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 46 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Rianne · #516, 26y
Riaz · #883, 28y
Ricards · #529, 9y
Riccardo · #319, 30y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Naima · #340, 54y
Mariana · #359, 59y
Kamal · #360, 53y
Bushra · #363, 54y

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1950 and 1959.

Pavel · #348, 46y
Miroslav · #346, 48y
Dalia · #355, 51y
Naima · #340, 54y

Ricardo was ranked #349 in Norway · Boys in 1956. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Ricardo and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Ricardo without appearing here.

Ricardo moved ahead of

Ross Compare
In 2019 they stood at #929 and #894 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #878 and #1723.
Gary Compare
In 2009 they stood at #667 and #576 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2010 that had become #645 and #897.
Glenn Compare
In 1998 they stood at #390 and #369 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1999 that had become #356 and #586.
Craig Compare
In 2015 they stood at #821 and #821 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2016 that had become #946 and #1157.

Moved ahead of Ricardo

Aksel Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1175 and #1461 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1517 and #1132.
Oliver Compare
In 1989 they stood at #393 and #434 in Norway · Boys; by 1990 that had become #540 and #231.
Tadhg Compare
In 2017 they stood at #888 and #943 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #1061 and #786.
Darragh Compare
In 2021 they stood at #939 and #1117 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #1179 and #925.

Moved the opposite way to Ricardo

Alexander Compare
Between 1956 and 1998 in Norway · Boys, Ricardo went from #349 to #526 while Alexander went from #415 to #30.
Jacob Compare
Between 1956 and 1998 in Norway · Boys, Ricardo went from #349 to #526 while Jacob went from #399 to #91.
Markus Compare
Between 1956 and 1998 in Norway · Boys, Ricardo went from #349 to #526 while Markus went from #406 to #13.
Max Compare
Between 1956 and 1998 in Norway · Boys, Ricardo went from #349 to #526 while Max went from #373 to #211.

Moved the same way as Ricardo

Harry Compare
Between 1955 and 1996 in Norway · Boys, Ricardo went from #398 to #594 and Harry from #107 to #574.
Roman Compare
Between 1955 and 1996 in Norway · Boys, Ricardo went from #398 to #594 and Roman from #371 to #596.
Ronald Compare
Between 1955 and 1992 in Norway · Boys, Ricardo went from #398 to #562 and Ronald from #170 to #624.
Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ricardo went from #472 to #1517 and Aaron from #33 to #154.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1955 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #349 in Norway in 1956. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Ricardo

Ricardo at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Ricardo across 3 official records

Ricardo by decade in Norway · Boys

Ricardo appears in

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Ricardo at a glance

Ricardo across 3 official records

Ricardo by decade in Norway · Boys

Ricardo appears in

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Also first recorded in the 1950s

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Ricardo moved ahead of

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