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Ricky

Pronounced /ˈɹɪki/

Rank in 2024
#826
Born in 2024
300
Peak year
1958 · #34
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:10 in 2024 (#9,677)

1880 to 2024

Cooling
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 300 boys were named Ricky, about 1 in every 5,718.
  • It peaked in 1958 with 13,373 babies, ranked #34.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1925.
  • 222,882 boys have been named Ricky since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Ricky per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. <0.1
    Greatest
  2. <0.1
    Silent
  3. 3.4
    Boomers
  4. 1.7
    Gen X
  5. 0.9
    Millennials
  6. 0.4
    Gen Z
  7. 0.2
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 23 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 1,546 babies, 0.07 per 1,000. Boomers: 129,205 babies, 3.44 per 1,000. Gen X: 46,111 babies, 1.69 per 1,000. Millennials: 28,201 babies, 0.93 per 1,000. Gen Z: 13,093 babies, 0.42 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 4,703 babies, 0.22 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From Rick + -y.

  • A diminutive of the male given name Richard.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/ˈɹɪki/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Ricky, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Other spellings

  • GirlBoyRising

    Rocky

    Rank
    #657
    Born '24
    418
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 19572024
  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Rico

    Rank
    #1,700
    Born '24
    98
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 19912024
  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Rickey

    Rank
    #2,789
    Born '24
    46
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 19582024
  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Rickie

    Rank
    #6,888
    Born '24
    12
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 19542024
  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Ricki

    Rank
    unranked
    Born '24
    0
    Origin
    Germanic
    1880peak 19532024