Rickey
The boy's name Rickey has been in the national records since 1924, with 62,391 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 2,798th. About 48,000 Rickeys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 64.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Rickey boys named Rickey
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 62,391
- Estimated living today
- 48,000
- Median age today
- 64
- Peak year
- 1958
- Best rank
- 106th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,798th
- First recorded
- 1924
- Girls / boys
- 674 / 61,717
How old the living Rickeys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 62,391 babies given the name since 1924, about 48,000 are alive — 77 in every hundred. Roughly 1,500 of them are children and 24,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1961 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Rickeys
- Rickey Henderson (1958–2024)American Hall of Fame baseball player
- Rickey Green (born 1954)American basketball player
- Rickey Medlocke (born 1950)American rock musician
People named Rickey with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Rickey is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Rickey is most concentrated in Arkansas (4.7×), Alabama (3.5×), Tennessee (2.9×), Mississippi (2.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1958
The most popular boys’ names the year Rickey peaked:
Rickey elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Rickey | 6 | 4,432nd |
| Ireland boys | Rickey | 3 | 334th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Rickey against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.