Boy name origins & meanings
- American : Leader
How Popular Is The Name Richey
Family name origins & meanings
- German : from a short form of a Germanic personal name based on rīc ‘power(ful)’ (see Reich), or from the female personal name Rikheit, from rīc + suffix -heit ‘way of being’.
- Possibly an Americanized spelling of German Reiche or Ritsche (see Ritchey 2).
- English and northern Irish : variant spelling of Ritchie.