Rick
Rick is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 42 births. Its best rank was 76th, in 1958.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 420.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 19585,462 births
- Best rank
- #76in 1958
- Since 1919
- 81,792people given the name
The story in the numbers
81,792 boys have been named Rick in the United States since 1919, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1958, with 5,462 births — 0.26% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 42 births in 2024, against 5,462 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1960, and the 1950s alone account for 42%. It has spent 61 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 4 of them in the top 100.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Rick | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 6 | |
| 1920s | 121 | |
| 1930s | 269 | |
| 1940s | 5,973 | |
| 1950s | 34,371 | |
| 1960s | 25,719 | |
| 1970s | 6,158 | |
| 1980s | 4,256 | |
| 1990s | 2,566 | |
| 2000s | 1,336 | |
| 2010s | 789 | |
| 2020s | 228 |
In 1958, its biggest year
Rick was the 76th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1958 were Michael, David, James, Robert and John. See all of 1958.
Names that rose and fell with Rick
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Kempeak 1956
- Randypeak 1956
- Randalpeak 1958
- Rickeypeak 1958
- Rickypeak 1958
- Rickiepeak 1954
- Randallpeak 1960
- Greggpeak 1962
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.