Dickie
Dickie was last recorded in 1993, when 5 babies were given it; 4,719 Americans have been recorded with it between 1916 and 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,280 Americans named Dickie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (48% of everyone recorded); the median is 73 years old and half are between 65 and 80.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dickie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dickie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Dickie is “a diminutive of the male given name Dick, a short form of the male given name Richard.”
/ˈdɪki/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dickie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,113, in 1993; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
205 babies in 1947, the peak
Dickie peaked in 1947, when 205 babies were given it (192 boys, #483 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 5 | #9,113 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 6 | #7,696 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 7 | #6,695 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,391 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 9 | #4,414 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 9 | #4,227 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 6 | #5,832 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,073 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 11 | #3,679 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 15 | #2,927 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (68)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 22 | #2,147 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 19 | #2,390 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 19 | #2,357 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 20 | #2,226 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 22 | #2,004 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 22 | #1,941 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 25 | #1,783 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 30 | #1,608 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 27 | #1,667 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 42 | #1,225 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 46 | #1,102 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 52 | #1,006 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 35 | #1,287 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 38 | #1,241 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 32 | #1,386 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 45 | #1,155 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 63 | #958 | 0.03 |
| 1961 | 75 | #885 | 0.04 |
| 1960 | 83 | #832 | 0.04 |
| 1959 | 68 | #930 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 69 | #907 | 0.03 |
| 1957 | 107 | #721 | 0.05 |
| 1956 | 103 | #720 | 0.05 |
| 1955 | 115 | #684 | 0.06 |
| 1954 | 112 | #682 | 0.05 |
| 1953 | 105 | #695 | 0.05 |
| 1952 | 135 | #606 | 0.07 |
| 1951 | 128 | #622 | 0.07 |
| 1950 | 134 | #585 | 0.07 |
| 1949 | 155 | #532 | 0.09 |
| 1948 | 144 | #557 | 0.08 |
| 1947 | 192 | #483 | 0.10 |
| 1946 | 146 | #530 | 0.09 |
| 1945 | 144 | #497 | 0.11 |
| 1944 | 140 | #512 | 0.10 |
| 1943 | 155 | #497 | 0.11 |
| 1942 | 158 | #489 | 0.11 |
| 1941 | 130 | #520 | 0.11 |
| 1940 | 140 | #491 | 0.12 |
| 1939 | 125 | #506 | 0.11 |
| 1938 | 127 | #514 | 0.11 |
| 1937 | 118 | #534 | 0.11 |
| 1936 | 112 | #542 | 0.11 |
| 1935 | 116 | #536 | 0.11 |
| 1934 | 88 | #638 | 0.09 |
| 1933 | 77 | #674 | 0.08 |
| 1932 | 70 | #747 | 0.07 |
| 1931 | 50 | #914 | 0.05 |
| 1930 | 41 | #1,082 | 0.04 |
| 1929 | 37 | #1,143 | 0.03 |
| 1928 | 33 | #1,259 | 0.03 |
| 1927 | 19 | #1,820 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 24 | #1,527 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 12 | #2,468 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,509 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 7 | #3,551 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 7 | #3,608 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,065 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dickie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,719 Americans recorded as Dickie, 6% are girls and 94% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Dickie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dickie, and how old are they?
2,280 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 48% of the 4,719 Americans ever recorded as Dickie. The median Dickie alive today is 73 years old; half are between 65 and 80.
The 2020 Census counted 1,880 people named Dickie (201 women and girls, 1,679 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,837 born in the U.S. The Census count is 34% 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 | 503 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,340 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 388 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 53 |
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 Dickie born?
The states with the most babies named Dickie are Texas, Oklahoma and Missouri, with 43% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Oklahoma and Missouri are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 653 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Oklahoma | 190 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Missouri | 184 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| North Carolina | 181 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Arkansas | 152 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Kentucky | 138 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| California | 133 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Indiana | 118 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Tennessee | 115 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 80 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Dickie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dickie is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1916 it was given 2.4 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 Dickie with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 6,612 babies since 1880, Dickie is the most given (71% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Dickie
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 Dickie and names like it
- Compare Dickie and DickyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sDickie peaked in 1947.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dickie since 1910.
- The top names of 1947The year the most babies were named Dickie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Dickie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.