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Rickie

Rickie is a boy's name that peaked in 1954, when it was the 218th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 6,446th. About 14,000 Rickies are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 64.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Rickie boys named Rickie

Girls and boys called Rickie

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 1,854 girls and 16,383 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 14 to 13.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 80 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births
18,237
Estimated living today
14,000
Median age today
64
Peak year
1954
Best rank
218th
Rank in 2025
6,446th
First recorded
1896
Girls / boys
1,854 / 16,383

How old the living Rickies are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 18,237 babies given the name since 1896, about 14,000 are alive — 77 in every hundred. Roughly 600 of them are children and 6,900 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 Rickies

People named Rickie with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Rickie is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Rickie is most concentrated in Kentucky (3.2×), Indiana (2.5×), Missouri (2.1×), West Virginia (2.1×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1954

The most popular boys’ names the year Rickie peaked:

All the names of 1954

Rickie elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Rickie 42 976th
Ireland boys Rickie 4 299th
Scotland boys Rickie 3 317th

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

Rickie 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.