Ricci

Where Ricci comes from

Ricci hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1944
    First appearance
    #3,430 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1954
    Peak, #739
    94 babies named Ricci — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1955
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,154.
  4. 1962
    Ricci Luyties born
    volleyball player
  5. 1973
    Ricci Harnett born
    British actor
  6. 2021
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Ricci Luyties · volleyball player, born 1962
  • Ricci Harnett · British actor, born 1973
  • Ricci Greenwood · American soccer player, born 1973
  • Ricci Hohlt · German actress, born 1945

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.