Richard

See also Richárd, and richard

English

Etymology

From Middle English Rycharde, from Old French Richard (“Richard”), from Frankish *Rīcohard (literally “powerful leader”), from Proto-Germanic *rīkô (“ruler, chief, leader”) + Proto-Germanic *harduz (“hard”), equivalent to rich +‎ -ard. Cognate with Old High German Rīcohard (“Richard”), Old English rīca (“powerful ruler”). More at rich, hard.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈɹɪtʃ.əd/ X-SAMPA: /"rItS.@d/

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• (US) IPA: /ˈɹɪtʃ.ɝd/ X-SAMPA: /"rItS.3`d/

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Proper noun

Richard (plural Richards)

1. A male given name.
   • ~1593 William Shakespeare: Richard III: Act V, Scene II:

     What! do I fear myself? there's no one else by; / Richard loves Richard; that is, I am I.

   • 1629, Thomas Adams, Meditations upon Creed, The Works of Thomas Adams, James Nichol (1862), volume 3, page 212:

     But we have known Williams and Richards, names not found in sacred story, but familiar to our country, prove as gracious saints as any Safe deliverance, Fight the good fight of faith, or such like,

   • 1985, William Wharton, Pride, ISBN 0394536363, page 97:

     I'd love to live in our castle. First I'd change my name from Dickie to Richard. That's my real name and it's a good king name. I don't like being called Dickie anyway, and I don't want to be Dick Junior either because everybody starts calling you Junior. What I'd like to be called is Rich but I don't know how to start people doing it.

2. (rare compared to given name) A patronymic surname.

Related terms

• diminutives: Dick, Dickie, Dicky, Rich, Richie, Rick, Rickey, Ricky

surnames

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Translations

male given name

• Arabic: ريتشارد (ar) (ritšard) m

  Egyptian Arabic: ريتشارد (ritšard) m

• Armenian: Ռիչարդ (hy) (Ṙičʿard)
• Azeri: Riçard (az)
• Basque: Rikard (eu)
• Belarusian: Рычард (be) (Rýčard) m
• Bengali: রিচার্ড (bn) (Ricarḑ)
• Breton: Richarzh (br)
• Bulgarian: Ричард (bg) (Ríčard) m
• Catalan: Ricard (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 理查德 (cmn) (Lǐchádé)

• Czech: Richard (cs) m
• Danish: Richard (da) m, Rikard (da) m
• Dutch: Richard (nl) m, Rijkert (nl) m, Rikkert (nl) m
• Esperanto: Rikardo (eo)
• Estonian: Richard (et), Riho (et)
• Finnish: Rikhard (fi), Riku (fi)
• French: Richard (fr) m
• Georgian: რიჩარდ (ka) (rič'ard)
• German: Richard (de) m, Rikard (de) m
• Greek: Ριχάρδος (el) (Richárdos) m, Ρίτσαρντ (el) (Rítsard) m
• Gujarati: રિચાર્ડ (gu)
• Hawaiian: Likeke
• Hebrew: ריצ'רד (he) (ritsard) m
• Hindi: रिचर्ड (hi) (ricarḍ) m
• Hungarian: Richárd (hu)
• Icelandic: Ríkharður (is) m
• Inuktitut: ᕆᑦᓴᕐᑦ (iu) (Ritsart)

• Italian: Riccardo (it) m
• Japanese: リチャード (ja) (Richādo)
• Jèrriais: R'chard m
• Korean: 리차드 (ko) (Richadeu)
• Latin: Richardus (la) m
• Latvian: Rihards (lv) m, Ričards (lv) m
• Lithuanian: Ričardas (lt) m
• Macedonian: Ричард (mk) (Ríčard) m
• Marathi: रिचर्ड (mr) (ricarḍa) m
• Norwegian: Rikard (no) m, Richard (no) m
• Persian: ریچارد (fa) (Ričârd)
• Polish: Ryszard (pl) m
• Portuguese: Ricardo (pt) m
• Romanian: Riciard (ro) m, Riciardu (ro) m
• Russian: Ричард (ru) (Ríčard) m, (French) Ришар (ru) (Rišár) m, (German) Рихард (ru) (Ríxard) m
• Scottish Gaelic: Ruiseart (gd)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Рикард (sh) m

  Roman: Rikard (sh) m

• Slovak: Richard (sk) m
• Slovene: Rihard (sl) m
• Spanish: Ricardo (es) m
• Swedish: Rikard (sv) m, Rickard (sv) m, Richard (sv) m
• Ukrainian: Річард (uk) (Ríčard) m
• Urdu: رچرڈ (ur) (ricarḍ) m
• Welsh: Rhisiart (cy)

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Czech

Wikipedia ^cs

Proper noun

Richard m

1. A male given name, cognate to Richard.

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Danish

Proper noun

Richard

1. A male given name, cognate to Richard.

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Estonian

Proper noun

Richard

1. A male given name, cognate to English Richard.

Related terms

• Rihard
• Riho

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French

Proper noun

Richard m

1. A male given name, cognate to English Richard.
2. A patronymic surname.

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German

Proper noun

Richard

1. A male given name cognate to Richard.

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Norwegian

Proper noun

Richard

1. A male given name, the usual modern form of Rikard.

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Slovak

Proper noun

Richard m, declension pattern chlap

1. A male given name, cognate to Richard

Derived terms

• Richard Ľvie Srdce m
• Riško m

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Swedish

Proper noun

Richard

1. A male given name, an English and French type variant of Rikard.

References

• [1] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, ISBN 9119551622: 17 105 males with the given name Richard (compared to 10 124 named Rikard and 22 341 named Rickard) living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1980s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.