Last Name RICHARD

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Meaning The son of Richard.
Of a powerful, rich, or generous disposition, from 'ric,' rich, and 'ard,' nature or disposition.
Rich, powerful.
Origin English, Anglo-Saxon, French, Jewish, Dutch, German, Irish, Haitian, Creole, Austrian, Belgian, Hungarian, Malagasy

Rank 581 (2000 US census) 506 (1990 US census)
Count 52,138 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 73.19%, or 38160 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 22.09%, or 11517 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.61%, or 318 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0.52%, or 271 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.64%, or 855 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.94%, or 1011 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


Longest baby names

 The longest first name, consisting of 12 characters, from the baby names reported since the year 1880 in the United States is Francisquita.

There are three names consisting of 11 characters: Christopher, Margueritta, and Margueritte

Longest last names

 The 2000 USA census contains more than 150,000 surnames. The longest surnames contain 15 characters each. There are 23 names like that. There could be more of those last names in reality. Firstly because it has been 10+ years since the survey and we could have gotten...

Scottish surnames

 Scottish last names divide themselves into two classes: Highland and Lowland.
In very few instances the names were considered before the eleventh century. They became significantly better known only since the thirteen century.
Just like English and other last n...

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