Dickey

21,766 people in the United States were counted with the surname Dickey in the 2020 census, making it the 1,605th most common in the country. That is about one person in 13,700.

By the numbers

People: 21,766
Rank: 1,605th
How common: 1 in 13,700
Per 100,000: 7.3

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

. The city in North Dakota was named in honor of the American lawyer George H. Dickey.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 79.4%
Black, not Hispanic 12.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Dickey

James Dickey (1923–1997)American writer
Dale Dickey (born 1961)American actress
William Dickey (1874–1944)American Olympic diver
R.A. Dickey (born 1974)Major League Baseball pitcher
Donald Ryder Dickey (1887–1932)American ornithologist
Bill Dickey (1907–1993)American baseball player and coach

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

Surnames like Dickey

Also a first name

Dickey has been given to 918 American babies as a first name since 1922, peaking in 1948. 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.