Ric
Ric was last recorded in 2012, when 8 babies were given it; 1,270 Americans have been recorded with it between 1942 and 2012 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ric by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ric?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,513, in 2012; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
55 babies in 1958, the peak
Ric peaked in 1958, when 55 boys were given it, #1,036 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 8 | #9,513 | 4.2 |
| 2004 | 6 | #11,043 | 3.0 |
| 2003 | 8 | #8,449 | 4.0 |
| 2001 | 9 | #7,386 | 4.6 |
| 2000 | 6 | #10,058 | 3.1 |
| 1999 | 10 | #6,400 | 5.2 |
| 1998 | 9 | #6,717 | 4.7 |
| 1997 | 5 | #10,472 | 2.7 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,786 | 3.7 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,619 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 11 | #5,374 | 5.7 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,688 | 4.1 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,560 | 4.0 |
| 1991 | 13 | #4,417 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 9 | #5,712 | 4.4 |
| 1989 | 13 | #4,218 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 34 | #1,938 | 17.8 |
| 1987 | 22 | #2,534 | 11.8 |
| 1986 | 19 | #2,759 | 10.3 |
| 1985 | 16 | #3,047 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 16 | #2,922 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 18 | #2,649 | 10.0 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,490 | 3.9 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,362 | 3.9 |
| 1980 | 14 | #3,213 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 10 | #4,014 | 5.8 |
| 1978 | 13 | #3,188 | 7.9 |
| 1977 | 15 | #2,879 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 13 | #3,056 | 8.3 |
| 1975 | 15 | #2,727 | 9.6 |
| 1974 | 16 | #2,532 | 10.2 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,976 | 5.1 |
| 1972 | 13 | #2,791 | 8.0 |
| 1971 | 23 | #1,900 | 13.0 |
| 1970 | 25 | #1,783 | 13.5 |
| 1969 | 33 | #1,410 | 18.5 |
| 1968 | 26 | #1,564 | 15.0 |
| 1967 | 23 | #1,641 | 13.2 |
| 1966 | 30 | #1,418 | 16.8 |
| 1965 | 43 | #1,157 | 23.1 |
| 1964 | 26 | #1,568 | 13.0 |
| 1963 | 29 | #1,478 | 14.3 |
| 1962 | 35 | #1,335 | 16.9 |
| 1961 | 46 | #1,170 | 21.7 |
| 1960 | 38 | #1,288 | 17.8 |
| 1959 | 47 | #1,137 | 22.0 |
| 1958 | 55 | #1,036 | 25.9 |
| 1957 | 39 | #1,261 | 18.1 |
| 1956 | 40 | #1,211 | 18.9 |
| 1955 | 42 | #1,160 | 20.4 |
| 1954 | 43 | #1,147 | 21.1 |
| 1953 | 25 | #1,543 | 12.7 |
| 1952 | 38 | #1,209 | 19.6 |
| 1951 | 37 | #1,215 | 19.7 |
| 1950 | 20 | #1,693 | 11.2 |
| 1949 | 23 | #1,573 | 13.0 |
| 1948 | 18 | #1,807 | 10.3 |
| 1947 | 21 | #1,689 | 11.5 |
| 1946 | 20 | #1,634 | 12.3 |
| 1945 | 7 | #2,946 | 5.2 |
| 1944 | 6 | #3,373 | 4.4 |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,164 | 9.1 |
| 1942 | 6 | #3,498 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ric a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ric has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 63 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ric: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ric, and how old are they?
An estimated 989 Americans named Ric and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (78% of everyone recorded); the median is 60 years old and half are between 43 and 68. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,870 people named Ric (10 women and girls, 1,860 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,065 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Ric rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 Ric born?
The states with the most babies named Ric are California, Ohio and Michigan, with 88% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 141 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 36 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 12 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Texas | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Washington | 11 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Wisconsin | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Ric is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ric is most over-represented in California: since 1942 it was given 1.1 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 Ric 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 83,522 babies since 1880, Ric is the second most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 none of their 40 babies recorded by SSA was a Ric (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Ric
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 Ric and names like it
- Compare Ric and RickBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sRic peaked in 1958.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ric since 1910.
- The top names of 1958The year the most babies were named Ric.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Ric alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with RMost given first.