The RITCHIE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	28,397	1131	0.011	105
United States (1880 census)	4,127	1501	0.008	83
Change since 1880	+24270	+370	+0.003	+22
Other Countries
Australia	3,809	389	0.023	233
United Kingdom	14,186	419	0.031	309

Top States for RITCHIE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	2,341	1389	0.007	69
Kentucky	1,961	279	0.049	485
Ohio	1,790	695	0.016	158
Texas	1,732	1415	0.008	83
Florida	1,567	1307	0.010	98
Top States for RITCHIE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Kentucky	1,961	279	0.049	485
West Virginia	352	774	0.019	195
Indiana	1,160	580	0.019	191
Delaware	145	942	0.019	185
Virginia	1,244	688	0.018	176

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called RITCHIE live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called RITCHIE represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called RITCHIE in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a RITCHIE by picking someone at random in Kentucky than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of RITCHIE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the RITCHIE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the RITCHIE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of RITCHIE in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	735	2.59
White (Hispanic)	491	1.73
Mixed Race	395	1.39
Native American/Alaskan	182	0.64
Asian/Pacific	148	0.52
White (Caucasian)	26,446	93.13

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the RITCHIE surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to RITCHIE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RITCHIE.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.