Dick
Dick was last recorded in 2005, when 5 babies were given it; 29,321 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2005 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,110 Americans named Dick and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (24% of everyone recorded); the median is 79 years old and half are between 70 and 85.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dick by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dick mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Dick is “a diminutive of the male given name Richard, also used as a formal given name.”
Rhyming nickname for Rick, pet form of Richard.
/dɪk/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dick?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,896, in 2005; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
1,131 babies in 1934, the peak
Dick peaked in 1934, when 1,131 boys were given it, #138 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 5 | #11,896 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 6 | #9,683 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,403 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,068 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,026 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 6 | #7,882 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 5 | #8,761 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 10 | #5,087 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 10 | #4,907 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 12 | #3,784 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (117)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 10 | #4,209 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 13 | #3,453 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 11 | #3,765 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 19 | #2,510 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 17 | #2,736 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 9 | #4,239 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 20 | #2,463 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 17 | #2,693 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 21 | #2,225 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 19 | #2,389 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 21 | #2,190 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 23 | #2,022 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 33 | #1,523 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 35 | #1,442 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 29 | #1,611 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 38 | #1,384 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 52 | #1,143 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 57 | #1,017 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 62 | #920 | 0.04 |
| 1967 | 74 | #833 | 0.04 |
| 1966 | 65 | #896 | 0.04 |
| 1965 | 99 | #746 | 0.05 |
| 1964 | 109 | #737 | 0.05 |
| 1963 | 129 | #682 | 0.06 |
| 1962 | 148 | #632 | 0.07 |
| 1961 | 181 | #588 | 0.09 |
| 1960 | 186 | #572 | 0.09 |
| 1959 | 219 | #531 | 0.10 |
| 1958 | 234 | #503 | 0.11 |
| 1957 | 201 | #544 | 0.09 |
| 1956 | 192 | #546 | 0.09 |
| 1955 | 182 | #547 | 0.09 |
| 1954 | 167 | #568 | 0.08 |
| 1953 | 215 | #476 | 0.11 |
| 1952 | 215 | #472 | 0.11 |
| 1951 | 246 | #431 | 0.13 |
| 1950 | 269 | #410 | 0.15 |
| 1949 | 340 | #368 | 0.19 |
| 1948 | 552 | #286 | 0.31 |
| 1947 | 755 | #234 | 0.41 |
| 1946 | 828 | #207 | 0.51 |
| 1945 | 758 | #196 | 0.56 |
| 1944 | 808 | #190 | 0.59 |
| 1943 | 855 | #188 | 0.60 |
| 1942 | 862 | #183 | 0.62 |
| 1941 | 893 | #171 | 0.73 |
| 1940 | 911 | #171 | 0.79 |
| 1939 | 877 | #169 | 0.79 |
| 1938 | 936 | #165 | 0.84 |
| 1937 | 1,008 | #153 | 0.95 |
| 1936 | 1,088 | #141 | 1.0 |
| 1935 | 1,093 | #142 | 1.0 |
| 1934 | 1,131 | #138 | 1.1 |
| 1933 | 1,045 | #144 | 1.1 |
| 1932 | 1,053 | #149 | 1.0 |
| 1931 | 992 | #152 | 1.0 |
| 1930 | 940 | #161 | 0.86 |
| 1929 | 842 | #168 | 0.78 |
| 1928 | 834 | #172 | 0.75 |
| 1927 | 775 | #186 | 0.69 |
| 1926 | 650 | #209 | 0.59 |
| 1925 | 564 | #233 | 0.51 |
| 1924 | 442 | #272 | 0.39 |
| 1923 | 350 | #301 | 0.32 |
| 1922 | 363 | #298 | 0.33 |
| 1921 | 349 | #309 | 0.32 |
| 1920 | 329 | #321 | 0.31 |
| 1919 | 269 | #347 | 0.27 |
| 1918 | 251 | #371 | 0.25 |
| 1917 | 220 | #380 | 0.24 |
| 1916 | 221 | #368 | 0.25 |
| 1915 | 167 | #417 | 0.20 |
| 1914 | 129 | #422 | 0.20 |
| 1913 | 94 | #442 | 0.18 |
| 1912 | 77 | #447 | 0.18 |
| 1911 | 37 | #484 | 0.16 |
| 1910 | 52 | #355 | 0.27 |
| 1909 | 46 | #344 | 0.28 |
| 1908 | 34 | #407 | 0.22 |
| 1907 | 38 | #360 | 0.26 |
| 1906 | 32 | #379 | 0.24 |
| 1905 | 36 | #339 | 0.27 |
| 1904 | 24 | #436 | 0.19 |
| 1903 | 18 | #509 | 0.15 |
| 1902 | 35 | #332 | 0.29 |
| 1901 | 21 | #410 | 0.20 |
| 1900 | 45 | #315 | 0.30 |
| 1899 | 30 | #325 | 0.28 |
| 1898 | 29 | #360 | 0.24 |
| 1897 | 23 | #393 | 0.20 |
| 1896 | 27 | #370 | 0.23 |
| 1895 | 22 | #418 | 0.19 |
| 1894 | 25 | #370 | 0.22 |
| 1893 | 20 | #405 | 0.18 |
| 1892 | 24 | #386 | 0.20 |
| 1891 | 18 | #415 | 0.18 |
| 1890 | 31 | #313 | 0.28 |
| 1889 | 22 | #381 | 0.20 |
| 1888 | 27 | #353 | 0.22 |
| 1887 | 27 | #321 | 0.27 |
| 1886 | 23 | #359 | 0.21 |
| 1885 | 27 | #328 | 0.25 |
| 1884 | 37 | #285 | 0.32 |
| 1883 | 24 | #339 | 0.23 |
| 1882 | 14 | #498 | 0.12 |
| 1881 | 20 | #375 | 0.20 |
| 1880 | 25 | #341 | 0.23 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dick a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dick has been given almost only to boys: 48 girls in 117 years of records.
Girls and boys named Dick: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dick, and how old are they?
7,110 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 24% of the 29,321 Americans ever recorded as Dick. The median Dick alive today is 79 years old; half are between 70 and 85.
The 2020 Census counted 6,350 people named Dick (72 women and girls, 6,278 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 10,437 born in the U.S. The Census count is 39% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3,130 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 3,240 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 575 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 127 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 17 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Dick born?
The states with the most babies named Dick are California, Ohio and Iowa, with 28% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Iowa is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 3,065 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Ohio | 2,047 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Iowa | 1,920 | not ranked | 3.4× |
| Illinois | 1,683 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Washington | 1,624 | not ranked | 4.4× |
| Michigan | 1,610 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Texas | 1,174 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Indiana | 1,130 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Nebraska | 1,039 | not ranked | 3.3× |
| Minnesota | 877 | not ranked | 1.4× |
Where Dick is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dick is most over-represented in Washington: since 1910 it was given 4.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Dick with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Dick
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Dick and names like it
- Compare Dick and BobBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sDick peaked in 1934.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dick since 1910.
- The top names of 1934The year the most babies were named Dick.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Dick alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.