Richelle

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Richelle: Recorded since 1968, its highest recorded position is #401, and it stood at #3,695 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
30times a registrar ranked it
57years from first to last
#401highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1914
1998	#2407
1999	#2770
2000	#2167
2003	#4373
2004	#2278
2005	#4798
2006	#3548
2007	#2895
2008	#3860
2009	#3936
2010	#4688
2011	#4764
2012	#3681
2013	#4739
2014	#5691
2015	#5730
2016	#4096
2018	#5666
2021	#5581
2022	#4645
2024	#3695

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 · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 22 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1968–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1968
First recorded at #401 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1968 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1968–1993
Highest recorded position: #401 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 1968 (recorded 1968–1993).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #3695 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Richelle appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 22 ranked years and 107 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Girls, from 1968.

Richelle across 2 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.

Richelle'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
England and Wales · Girls	#1914 (1996)	#1914 (1996)	#3695 (2024)	22 of 29	107 (1996–2024)	8 (1996)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#401 (1968)	#401 (1968)	#516 (1993)	8 of 26	24 (1968–1993)	3 (1968)

Richelle by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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 Richelle in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	19	3 of 10	6
2000sbusiest	43	8 of 10	5
2010s	32	8 of 10	4
2020s	13	3 of 10	4

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade — the 8 years of it this list covers, averaging 5 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Richelle 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 2 regions, from 1968 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #401 in Republic of Ireland in 1968.

Richelle'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	female	#3695	6	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#4645	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#5581	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#5666	3	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#4096	5	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#5730	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#5691	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#4739	4	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#3681	6	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#4764	4	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#4688	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3936	5	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3860	5	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2895	7	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#3548	5	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#4798	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2278	8	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#4373	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2167	7	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2770	5	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2407	6	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1914	8	High	Verified
1993	Republic of Ireland	female	#516	3	High	Verified
1992	Republic of Ireland	female	#523	3	High	Verified
1988	Republic of Ireland	female	#492	3	High	Verified
1986	Republic of Ireland	female	#521	3	High	Verified
1985	Republic of Ireland	female	#519	3	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	female	#518	3	High	Verified
1971	Republic of Ireland	female	#466	3	High	Verified
1968	Republic of Ireland	female	#401	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
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 2 registrars between 1968 and 2024, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #401, first reached in 1968.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 8 births, registered in England and Wales in 1996.

Its record falls into 12 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 7 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 28 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.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 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.

Kailum · #401, 25y
Phillipa · #401, 32y
Duaa · #400, 26y
Humza · #399, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Allyson · #401, 15y
Celeste · #401, 30y
Luisa · #401, 31y
Phillipa · #401, 32y

Richelle was ranked #401 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 1968. 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.

Richelle 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 Richelle without appearing here.

Richelle moved ahead of

Dianne Compare
In 2023 they stood at #5581 and #5581 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3695 and #5891.
Geraldine Compare
In 2023 they stood at #5666 and #5666 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3695 and #5891.
Jeanette Compare
In 2023 they stood at #5666 and #5666 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3695 and #5891.
Kirsten Compare
In 2023 they stood at #5581 and #5581 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3695 and #5891.

Moved ahead of Richelle

Ezra Compare
In 2013 they stood at #4739 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #5691 and #1628.
Beau Compare
In 2002 they stood at #2167 and #3247 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2003 that had become #4373 and #545.
Amalie Compare
In 2002 they stood at #2167 and #3912 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2003 that had become #4373 and #965.
Aria Compare
In 2002 they stood at #2167 and #2416 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2003 that had become #4373 and #1472.

Moved the opposite way to Richelle

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Richelle went from #1914 to #3695 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Richelle went from #1914 to #3695 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Richelle went from #1914 to #3695 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Richelle went from #1914 to #3695 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Richelle

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Richelle went from #1914 to #3695 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Richelle went from #1914 to #3695 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Richelle went from #1914 to #3695 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Richelle went from #1914 to #3695 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

What's not yet available

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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 2 regions, from 1968 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #401 in Republic of Ireland in 1968. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Richelle

Richelle at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Richelle across 2 official records

Richelle by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Richelle appears in

Popularity data

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Richelle at a glance

Richelle across 2 official records

Richelle by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Richelle

Richelle and the names beside it

Richelle moved ahead of

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