Dicky
Dicky was last recorded in 1980, when 5 babies were given it; 975 Americans have been recorded with it between 1925 and 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dicky by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dicky mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Dicky is “a diminutive of the male given name Richard.”
From Dick + -y.
/ˈdɪki/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dicky?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #6,500, in 1980; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
37 babies in 1947, the peak
Dicky peaked in 1947, when 37 boys were given it, #1,193 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 5 | #6,500 | 2.8 |
| 1976 | 5 | #5,820 | 3.2 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,679 | 3.2 |
| 1972 | 9 | #3,410 | 5.6 |
| 1971 | 12 | #2,852 | 6.8 |
| 1970 | 10 | #3,118 | 5.4 |
| 1969 | 8 | #3,388 | 4.5 |
| 1968 | 13 | #2,356 | 7.5 |
| 1967 | 13 | #2,267 | 7.5 |
| 1966 | 11 | #2,512 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | 14 | #2,205 | 7.5 |
| 1964 | 13 | #2,341 | 6.5 |
| 1963 | 13 | #2,338 | 6.4 |
| 1962 | 21 | #1,770 | 10.2 |
| 1961 | 24 | #1,654 | 11.3 |
| 1960 | 22 | #1,734 | 10.3 |
| 1959 | 21 | #1,768 | 9.8 |
| 1958 | 32 | #1,378 | 15.1 |
| 1957 | 37 | #1,282 | 17.2 |
| 1956 | 26 | #1,543 | 12.3 |
| 1955 | 35 | #1,276 | 17.0 |
| 1954 | 28 | #1,443 | 13.7 |
| 1953 | 37 | #1,231 | 18.8 |
| 1952 | 31 | #1,353 | 15.9 |
| 1951 | 24 | #1,529 | 12.7 |
| 1950 | 24 | #1,503 | 13.4 |
| 1949 | 34 | #1,231 | 19.2 |
| 1948 | 27 | #1,406 | 15.4 |
| 1947 | 37 | #1,193 | 20.2 |
| 1946 | 29 | #1,305 | 17.9 |
| 1945 | 27 | #1,276 | 20.1 |
| 1944 | 30 | #1,218 | 22.0 |
| 1943 | 28 | #1,317 | 19.6 |
| 1942 | 21 | #1,548 | 15.2 |
| 1941 | 20 | #1,546 | 16.3 |
| 1940 | 21 | #1,486 | 18.1 |
| 1939 | 21 | #1,464 | 19.0 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,223 | 9.9 |
| 1937 | 12 | #2,111 | 11.3 |
| 1936 | 17 | #1,659 | 16.4 |
| 1935 | 23 | #1,431 | 22.1 |
| 1934 | 23 | #1,433 | 22.3 |
| 1933 | 13 | #2,022 | 13.1 |
| 1932 | 14 | #2,024 | 13.4 |
| 1931 | 18 | #1,715 | 17.3 |
| 1930 | 17 | #1,841 | 15.5 |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,349 | 11.2 |
| 1928 | 11 | #2,545 | 9.9 |
| 1927 | 10 | #2,750 | 8.9 |
| 1925 | 6 | #3,848 | 5.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dicky a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dicky has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dicky: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dicky, and how old are they?
An estimated 499 Americans named Dicky and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (51% of everyone recorded); the median is 71 years old and half are between 64 and 77. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 518 people named Dicky (34 women and girls, 484 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 606 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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.
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 Dicky born?
The states with the most babies named Dicky are Texas, North Carolina and Tennessee, with 100% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 101 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| North Carolina | 11 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Tennessee | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Dicky is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dicky is most over-represented in Texas: since 1925 it was given 1.8 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 Dicky 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, Dicky is the second most given (15% 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 Dicky
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 Dicky and names like it
- Compare Dicky and DickieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sDicky peaked in 1947.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dicky since 1910.
- The top names of 1947The year the most babies were named Dicky.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Dicky alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.