Rickey
Last seen for girls in 1990 at #11,409 · #2,798 for boys in 2025, 45 births
Given to boys 98.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1958 · 3,782 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 61,717since 1924
Rickey over time
Rank among boys' names. Rickey has never cracked the top 100 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #2,798 | 45 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,750 | 47 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,895 | 43 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,753 | 47 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,096 | 69 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,113 | 66 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,150 | 66 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,122 | 66 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,780 | 86 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,890 | 78 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,729 | 89 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,506 | 107 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,528 | 105 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,602 | 97 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,484 | 109 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,399 | 119 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,381 | 123 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,329 | 130 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,188 | 148 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,077 | 165 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,105 | 149 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,101 | 143 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,093 | 141 | |
| 2002 | — | #930 | 172 | |
| 2001 | — | #926 | 167 | |
| 2000 | — | #890 | 176 | |
| 1999 | — | #809 | 188 | |
| 1998 | — | #900 | 160 | |
| 1997 | — | #706 | 224 | |
| 1996 | — | #727 | 211 | |
| 1995 | — | #659 | 251 | |
| 1994 | — | #655 | 252 | |
| 1993 | — | #584 | 311 | |
| 1992 | — | #565 | 324 | |
| 1991 | — | #530 | 363 | |
| 1990 | #11,409 | 6 | #502 | 382 |
| 1989 | — | #456 | 424 | |
| 1988 | — | #437 | 429 | |
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 | #441 | 406 |
| 1986 | #7,749 | 8 | #409 | 434 |
| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 | #370 | 500 |
| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 | #357 | 510 |
| 1983 | #9,015 | 6 | #354 | 502 |
| 1982 | #9,237 | 6 | #338 | 556 |
| 1981 | #9,110 | 6 | #330 | 580 |
| 1980 | #7,418 | 8 | #329 | 576 |
| 1979 | #8,061 | 7 | #343 | 526 |
| 1978 | #6,385 | 9 | #344 | 500 |
| 1977 | #6,340 | 9 | #330 | 553 |
| 1976 | #6,611 | 8 | #322 | 551 |
| 1975 | #5,984 | 9 | #329 | 534 |
| 1974 | #6,258 | 8 | #354 | 477 |
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 | #341 | 496 |
| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 | #342 | 504 |
| 1971 | #7,388 | 6 | #349 | 525 |
| 1970 | #5,818 | 8 | #339 | 561 |
| 1969 | #4,723 | 10 | #314 | 594 |
| 1968 | #4,779 | 9 | #259 | 768 |
| 1967 | #4,625 | 9 | #263 | 766 |
| 1966 | #4,198 | 10 | #227 | 945 |
| 1965 | #3,050 | 17 | #215 | 1,118 |
| 1964 | #3,000 | 18 | #205 | 1,356 |
| 1963 | #3,458 | 14 | #175 | 1,680 |
| 1962 | #2,605 | 22 | #169 | 1,887 |
| 1961 | #2,299 | 27 | #153 | 2,255 |
| 1960 | #2,820 | 19 | #138 | 2,573 |
| 1959 | #2,289 | 25 | #116 | 3,458 |
| 1958 | #1,820 | 36 | #106 | 3,782 |
| 1957 | #3,033 | 15 | #108 | 3,522 |
| 1956 | #2,453 | 21 | #112 | 3,263 |
| 1955 | #2,472 | 20 | #114 | 3,065 |
| 1954 | #1,801 | 33 | #113 | 3,130 |
| 1953 | #2,595 | 17 | #113 | 2,840 |
| 1952 | #2,266 | 21 | #140 | 2,052 |
| 1951 | #2,577 | 16 | #166 | 1,543 |
| 1950 | #2,253 | 19 | #173 | 1,301 |
| 1949 | #2,274 | 19 | #191 | 1,087 |
| 1948 | #1,739 | 29 | #197 | 1,020 |
| 1947 | #1,633 | 34 | #226 | 809 |
| 1946 | #2,392 | 16 | #294 | 483 |
| 1945 | #1,699 | 24 | #371 | 262 |
| 1944 | #2,027 | 18 | #422 | 207 |
| 1943 | #3,801 | 7 | #620 | 104 |
| 1942 | #2,817 | 11 | #791 | 66 |
| 1941 | — | #1,004 | 41 | |
| 1940 | — | #1,519 | 20 | |
| 1939 | — | #1,795 | 15 | |
| 1938 | — | #1,559 | 19 | |
| 1937 | — | #2,088 | 12 | |
| 1936 | — | #1,417 | 22 | |
| 1935 | — | #2,396 | 10 | |
| 1934 | — | #1,783 | 16 | |
| 1933 | — | #1,586 | 19 | |
| 1932 | — | #3,776 | 5 | |
| 1931 | — | #3,390 | 6 | |
| 1930 | — | #2,781 | 9 | |
| 1929 | — | #3,559 | 6 | |
| 1928 | #4,725 | 5 | #3,357 | 7 |
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| 1925 | — | #3,741 | 6 | |
| 1924 | — | #4,347 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Rickey! It came in at #4,347, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1926–1927, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Rickey
- 48 spots since 2024 (#2,750 → #2,798)
- 685 spots since 2020 (#2,113 → #2,798)
- 1,069 spots since 2015 (#1,729 → #2,798)
- Biggest jump: 213 spots in 1942 (#1,004 → #791)
- Biggest drop: 194 spots in 1998 (#706 → #900)
- Debuted 1924
- Peaked 1958 at #106 (3,782 births)
- Births halved by 1962, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 61 yrs · run 1942–2002
- Highest: 1 in 561 boys born in 1958 were named Rickey (0.18%)
- Latest: 1 in 37,957 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 45.3% of all boys named Rickey (27,956) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 24 | #3,357 (1928) | #3,751 |
| 1930s | 133 | #1,417 (1936) | #2,257 |
| 1940s | 4,099 | #191 (1949) | #564 |
| 1950s | 27,956 | #106 (1958) | #126 |
| 1960s | 13,942 | #138 (1960) | #212 |
| 1970s | 5,227 | #322 (1976) | #339 |
| 1980s | 4,917 | #329 (1980) | #382 |
| 1990s | 2,666 | #502 (1990) | #664 |
| 2000s | 1,514 | #890 (2000) | #1,102 |
| 2010s | 922 | #1,399 (2010) | #1,719 |
| 2020s | 317 | #2,096 (2021) | #2,568 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Rickey in 1979
Top girls' names in 1979
Top boys' names in 1979
More about 1979
girls
1,605,268 girls got a published name in 1979; 1 in 229,324 of them was named Rickey, which outranked 32.7% of the 11,972 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,721,536 boys got a published name in 1979; 1 in 3,273 of them was named Rickey, which outranked 95.1% of the 7,071 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).