Dick — boys' name

What the Data Says About Dick

The Social Security Administration has registered 29,273 babies named Dick between 1880 and 2005, spanning 126 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Dick currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2005. The name reached its historical peak in 1934, when 1,131 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Dick performed strongest in the 1930s, accumulating 10,163 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Dick shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 3,065 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Ohio and Iowa. In total, SSA state-level files list Dick in 44 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Dick 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 29,273 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.