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Ricardo

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ɹɪˈkɑːdəʊ//
  • United States//ɹɪˈkɑɹdoʊ//

A male given name from Portuguese or Spanish, equivalent to English Richard.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A male given name from Portuguese or Spanish, equivalent to English Richard.

  2. 2

    A surname.

    The North Staffordshire was always a railway of character from its formation in 1845, and the Railway Member identified with it from the start was also a character. John Lewis Ricardo was M.P. for Stoke-upon-Trent ^([sic]) from 1841 to 1862.

  3. 3

    An unincorporated community in Kern County, California, United States; the name was apparently derived from Richard.

Etymology

From Portuguese and Spanish Ricardo. Doublet of Richard.

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).