Ricketts

12,642 people in the United States were counted with the surname Ricketts in the 2020 census, making it the 2,775th most common in the country. That is about one person in 23,600.

By the numbers

People: 12,642
Rank: 2,775th
How common: 1 in 23,600
Per 100,000: 4.2

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

From Rickett, a medieval diminutive of Richard + the patronymic suffix -s.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 67.0%
Black, not Hispanic 23.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Ricketts

Pete Ricketts (born 1964)United States Senator from Nebraska since 2023
Shanieka Ricketts (born 1992)Jamaican athletics competitor
Tosaint Ricketts (born 1987)Canadian sprinter and soccer player
Donovan Ricketts (born 1977)Jamaican association football player
Sam Ricketts (born 1981)Welsh association football player and manager
Juan Landázuri Ricketts (1913–1997)Catholic cardinal
Howard Taylor Ricketts (1871–1910)American pathologist
Ed Ricketts (1897–1948)American marine biologist

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

Surnames like Ricketts

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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.