Rich is a first name for boys.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Rich in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Rich in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Rich by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Rich ranks at #3,910. That means there are 3,909 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Rich.
The odds that a man or boy named Rich lives in your home state are about the same as betting on heads or tails in a coin toss. This boy’s name is quite popular, but not equally so throughout the entire USA. You can meet boys and men with the name Rich in 22 states – which is obviously nearly every second of all 50 states in the USA, for example in California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois or Indiana. In relation to the number of residents, the most men and boys with the first name Rich live in California – here, one in 25,236 bears this name. In comparison, if we look at all living men and boys in the whole country, only one in 74,768 will turn around if you call his first name Rich.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter R is quite common as an initial letter for boys’ names. To be precise, 5.2% of all boys' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D.
With four letters, the name Rich is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 5.2% of all boys' names start with R, this initial letter occurs much more often than all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: of all the names that begin with an R, Robert is the most common.
If your name is Rich and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Rich, you can simply say:
Rocket
Igloo
Cat
Hat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Rich
Rich
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
R
I
C
H
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
R
I
C
H
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Rich sounds like this:
