Dicie — girls' name
1,167 babies named Dicie in U.S. Social Security records since 1880, with the highest year being 1920. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
21% of everyone ever named Dicie was born in this single decade.
42 babies were named Dicie in 1920 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Dicie
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,167 babies named Dicie between 1880 and 1984, spanning 105 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Dicie currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1984. The name reached its historical peak in 1920, when 42 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Dicie performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 241 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Dicie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Kentucky, which accounts for 34 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by West Virginia and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Dicie in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Dicie in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,167 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Dicie at a glance
Last recorded 1984Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Dicie popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1984–1880
- Peak year (1920)
- 42
- Annual births at peak — across 105 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1984.
1,167 total births across 105 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1920 with 42 births in a single year.
Dicie by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1920s
- 241 births that decade — 21% of Dicie's all-time total
Dicie decade highlights
- Peak decade 241 births
- Runner-up 203 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1920s was Dicie's strongest decade
241 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 21% of all-time use.
Dicie by state
Where Dicie concentrates geographically — total births since 1880
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Kentucky | | 34 | 2.9% |
| #2 | West Virginia | | 22 | 1.9% |
| #3 | North Carolina | | 20 | 1.7% |
| #4 | Oklahoma | | 10 | 0.9% |
| #5 | Georgia | | 7 | 0.6% |
| #6 | Tennessee | | 7 | 0.6% |
| #7 | Alabama | | 5 | 0.4% |
34 of 1,167 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 7 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Kentucky 2.9% of nationwide
- West Virginia 1.9% of nationwide
- North Carolina 1.7% of nationwide
- Oklahoma 0.9% of nationwide
- Georgia 0.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 7 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Kentucky accounts for 2.9% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1880–1984 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.