Dick

18,994 people in the United States were counted with the surname Dick in the 2020 census, making it the 1,857th most common in the country. That is about one person in 15,700.

By the numbers

People: 18,994
Rank: 1,857th
How common: 1 in 15,700
Per 100,000: 6.4

Where the name comes from

Origin a given name

Rhyming nickname for Rick, pet form of Richard.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Dick described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 86.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 3.6%
Black, not Hispanic 3.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.4%
Hispanic or Latino 2.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%

Notable people called Dick

Philip K. Dick (1928–1982)American science fiction author
Andy Dick (born 1965)American comedian and actor
Walter Dick (1905–1989)American soccer player
Willen Dick (1897–1980)ski jumper
Gradey Dick (born 2003)American basketball player
Douglas Dick (1920–2015)American actor
Florian Dick (born 1984)German footballer
Daisy Dick (born 1972)British three-day eventing rider

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

Surnames like Dick

Also a first name

Dick has been given to 29,321 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1934. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.