Dick

Where Dick comes from

Rhyming nickname for Rick, pet form of Richard.
— Wiktionary's entry for Dick
  • 1 syllable
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #341 among boys — 25 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1934
    Peak, #138
    1,131 babies named Dick — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1947
    Dick Advocaat born
    Dutch association football player and manager
  4. 1948
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #286.
  5. 1957
    Dick Schoof born
    civil servant and former Prime Minister of the Netherlands, 2024-2026
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the male given name Richard, also used as a formal given name.
Namesakes
  • Dick Schoof · civil servant and former Prime Minister of the Netherlands, 2024-2026, born 1957
  • Dick Advocaat · Dutch association football player and manager, born 1947
  • Dick Fosbury · American athletics competitor, high jumper, 1947–2023
  • Dick Durbin · United States Senator from Illinois, born 1944
  • Dick Powell · American actor, 1904–1963

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.