Richmond is a first name for boys.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Richmond in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Richmond in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Richmond by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Richmond ranks at #3,880. That means there are 3,879 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 Richmond.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their son Richmond annualy. This means that there have been boys named Richmond who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus men named Richmond have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Richmond even more than any other time: in 1899, it holds its present record at rank #398 in the list of the most popular boys' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Richmond was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Richmond has never been ranked higher than #398. In 2022, he rivaled the 5,276 names that preceded him on the list. In total, 14 boys named Richmond were born in this year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Richmond were born, there have been 49 newborns who received this name.
The odds of having a man or boy named Richmond in your home state are about the same as the chance for a white Christmas in New York City – in both cases they are less than 30%. More precisely, the first name Richmond is registered in 14 states, among which are Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia or Kentucky. In proportion to the male population, most men and boys with the first name Richmond live in Alabama, but even there the name is rather special – on average, you would have to ask 31,400 men and boys in Alabama for their name before you meet one who answers with Richmond.
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 eight letters, the name Richmond is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with 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 Richmond 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 Richmond, you can simply say:
Rocket
Igloo
Cat
Hat
Mouse
Orange
Nut
Dinosaur
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Richmond
Richmond
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
R
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C
H
M
O
N
D
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
M
O
N
D
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. Richmond sounds like this:
