Ricky
Ricky is ranked 828th among boys in 2024 (300 births). Its best rank was 34th, in 1958–1959.
- Rank in 2024
- #828up 45 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 3000.02% of boys
- Peak year
- 195813,373 births
- Best rank
- #34first in 1958
- Since 1925
- 224,811people given the name
The story in the numbers
222,882 boys have been named Ricky in the United States since 1925, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1958, with 13,373 births — 0.63% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 300 births in 2024, against 13,373 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1962, and the 1950s alone account for 36%. It has spent 85 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 18 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,929 girls have also been given it, 0.86% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Ricky | |
|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 41 | |
| 1930s | 185 | |
| 1940s | 6,796 | |
| 1950s | 79,169 | |
| 1960s | 66,392 | |
| 1970s | 22,070 | |
| 1980s | 20,158 | |
| 1990s | 13,419 | |
| 2000s | 8,172 | |
| 2010s | 4,929 | |
| 2020s | 1,551 |
In 1958, its biggest year
Ricky was the 34th 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 Ricky
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Randypeak 1956
- Randalpeak 1958
- Rickpeak 1958
- Markpeak 1960
- Kempeak 1956
- Rickeypeak 1958
- Jeffrypeak 1956
- 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.