Dickey

Where Dickey comes from

From Dick + -ey. The city in North Dakota was named in honor of the American lawyer George H. Dickey.
— Wiktionary's entry for Dickey
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1922
    First appearance
    #3,872 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1941
    Peak, #1,091
    36 babies named Dickey — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1958
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,093.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the male given name Richard.
Namesakes

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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.