Ricco
Ricco was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,515 among boys’ names; 1,477 Americans have been recorded with it since 1924 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,380 Americans named Ricco and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 21 and 48.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ricco by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ricco?
#9,515 among boys’ names, 2025
Ricco fell from #4,852 in 2015 to #9,515 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 10.4 to 4.7 per million.
62 babies in 1977, the peak
Ricco peaked in 1977, when 62 boys were given it, #1,112 among boys’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 13% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #9,515 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 11 | #7,643 | 6.4 |
| 2023 | 13 | #6,809 | 7.6 |
| 2022 | 8 | #9,649 | 4.6 |
| 2021 | 18 | #5,286 | 10.3 |
| 2020 | 14 | #6,213 | 8.1 |
| 2019 | 11 | #7,523 | 6.1 |
| 2018 | 11 | #7,506 | 6.1 |
| 2017 | 19 | #5,068 | 10.3 |
| 2016 | 11 | #7,496 | 5.8 |
Every recorded year (69)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #4,852 | 10.4 |
| 2014 | 21 | #4,664 | 10.9 |
| 2013 | 19 | #4,932 | 10.0 |
| 2012 | 29 | #3,691 | 15.3 |
| 2011 | 20 | #4,787 | 10.5 |
| 2010 | 18 | #5,198 | 9.4 |
| 2009 | 25 | #4,134 | 12.6 |
| 2008 | 24 | #4,231 | 11.8 |
| 2007 | 15 | #5,848 | 7.2 |
| 2006 | 18 | #5,020 | 8.8 |
| 2005 | 18 | #4,783 | 9.0 |
| 2004 | 18 | #4,741 | 9.1 |
| 2003 | 16 | #4,986 | 8.1 |
| 2002 | 19 | #4,289 | 9.8 |
| 2001 | 22 | #3,814 | 11.3 |
| 2000 | 16 | #4,736 | 8.1 |
| 1999 | 24 | #3,347 | 12.5 |
| 1998 | 15 | #4,592 | 7.8 |
| 1997 | 19 | #3,698 | 10.1 |
| 1996 | 13 | #4,821 | 6.9 |
| 1995 | 19 | #3,525 | 10.0 |
| 1994 | 20 | #3,434 | 10.4 |
| 1993 | 28 | #2,625 | 14.3 |
| 1992 | 44 | #1,872 | 22.0 |
| 1991 | 34 | #2,179 | 16.8 |
| 1990 | 45 | #1,770 | 21.9 |
| 1989 | 46 | #1,696 | 23.0 |
| 1988 | 48 | #1,540 | 25.1 |
| 1987 | 35 | #1,858 | 18.7 |
| 1986 | 40 | #1,638 | 21.7 |
| 1985 | 26 | #2,161 | 14.1 |
| 1984 | 13 | #3,408 | 7.2 |
| 1983 | 21 | #2,393 | 11.7 |
| 1982 | 18 | #2,680 | 9.9 |
| 1981 | 26 | #2,076 | 14.5 |
| 1980 | 33 | #1,758 | 18.5 |
| 1979 | 37 | #1,591 | 21.5 |
| 1978 | 38 | #1,533 | 23.1 |
| 1977 | 62 | #1,112 | 37.7 |
| 1976 | 38 | #1,465 | 24.2 |
| 1975 | 50 | #1,204 | 32.0 |
| 1974 | 20 | #2,181 | 12.7 |
| 1973 | 28 | #1,689 | 18.0 |
| 1972 | 22 | #1,958 | 13.6 |
| 1971 | 29 | #1,661 | 16.4 |
| 1970 | 29 | #1,605 | 15.6 |
| 1969 | 15 | #2,285 | 8.4 |
| 1968 | 9 | #3,053 | 5.2 |
| 1967 | 15 | #2,113 | 8.6 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,321 | 2.7 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,949 | 3.0 |
| 1963 | 10 | #2,813 | 4.9 |
| 1962 | 13 | #2,341 | 6.3 |
| 1960 | 9 | #3,029 | 4.2 |
| 1959 | 7 | #3,535 | 3.3 |
| 1958 | 7 | #3,511 | 3.3 |
| 1953 | 7 | #3,370 | 3.5 |
| 1952 | 6 | #3,664 | 3.1 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,254 | 5.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ricco a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ricco has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 69 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ricco: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ricco, and how old are they?
1,380 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 1,477 Americans ever recorded as Ricco. The median Ricco alive today is 37 years old; half are between 21 and 48.
The 2020 Census counted 1,065 people named Ricco (9 women and girls, 1,056 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,337 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 48 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 386 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 452 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 311 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 183 |
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).
How common is the spelling Ricco?
Ricco is a less common spelling of Rico: SSA has recorded 1,477 Ricco and 9,971 Rico since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 238,804 babies since 1880, Ricco is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 360 babies (2.2%), the third most given that year.
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 Ricco
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1920-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Rico | 9,971 | |
| Vasilios | 1,500 | |
| Dedrick | 4,472 | |
| Panagiotis | 1,320 | |
| Dimitrios | 2,682 | |
| Anastasios | 1,029 |
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 Ricco and names like it
- Compare Ricco and RicoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sRicco peaked in 1977.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ricco since 1910.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Ricco.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Ricco alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with RMost given first.