Vickey

Where Vickey comes from

The dictionaries list Vickey as a given name — a diminutive of the female given name Victoria, variant of Vicky — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1916
    First appearance
    #4,417 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1957
    Peak, #476
    395 babies named Vickey — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1965
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #792.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Victoria, variant of Vicky.
Namesakes

No widely known Vickey turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

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.