Rick
Rick was given to 40 boys in 2025, #3,076 among boys’ names; 81,964 Americans have been recorded with it since 1919 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 61,100 Americans named Rick and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (75% of everyone recorded); the median is 65 years old and half are between 57 and 70.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rick by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Rick mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Rick is “a diminutive of the male given name Richard, as well as similar name such as Ricardo.”
From the male given name Richard.
/ɹɪk/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Rick?
#3,076 among boys’ names, 2025
Rick fell from #1,841 in 2015 to #3,076 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 42.3 to 23.4 per million.
5,467 babies in 1958, the peak
Rick peaked in 1958, when 5,467 babies were given it (5,461 boys, #77 among boys’ names). The 40 births of 2025 are under 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40 | #3,076 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 43 | #2,947 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 43 | #2,934 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 46 | #2,821 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 44 | #2,850 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 53 | #2,457 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 51 | #2,577 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 80 | #1,884 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 63 | #2,167 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 66 | #2,130 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (106)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 81 | #1,841 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 88 | #1,724 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 73 | #1,928 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 82 | #1,808 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 98 | #1,586 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 108 | #1,513 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 108 | #1,536 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 111 | #1,481 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 125 | #1,349 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 133 | #1,264 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 152 | #1,090 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 120 | #1,263 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 130 | #1,157 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 148 | #1,040 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 144 | #1,024 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 165 | #926 | 0.08 |
| 1999 | 165 | #908 | 0.09 |
| 1998 | 165 | #885 | 0.09 |
| 1997 | 189 | #785 | 0.10 |
| 1996 | 214 | #724 | 0.11 |
| 1995 | 215 | #729 | 0.11 |
| 1994 | 266 | #635 | 0.14 |
| 1993 | 317 | #577 | 0.16 |
| 1992 | 312 | #574 | 0.16 |
| 1991 | 346 | #545 | 0.17 |
| 1990 | 377 | #509 | 0.18 |
| 1989 | 367 | #500 | 0.18 |
| 1988 | 385 | #465 | 0.20 |
| 1987 | 437 | #419 | 0.23 |
| 1986 | 418 | #421 | 0.23 |
| 1985 | 444 | #408 | 0.24 |
| 1984 | 387 | #421 | 0.21 |
| 1983 | 437 | #383 | 0.24 |
| 1982 | 490 | #364 | 0.27 |
| 1981 | 450 | #381 | 0.25 |
| 1980 | 442 | #390 | 0.25 |
| 1979 | 496 | #354 | 0.29 |
| 1978 | 403 | #388 | 0.25 |
| 1977 | 438 | #374 | 0.27 |
| 1976 | 457 | #357 | 0.29 |
| 1975 | 499 | #343 | 0.32 |
| 1974 | 516 | #339 | 0.33 |
| 1973 | 621 | #293 | 0.40 |
| 1972 | 682 | #280 | 0.42 |
| 1971 | 859 | #260 | 0.49 |
| 1970 | 1,184 | #211 | 0.64 |
| 1969 | 1,272 | #200 | 0.71 |
| 1968 | 1,431 | #182 | 0.82 |
| 1967 | 1,587 | #167 | 0.91 |
| 1966 | 1,744 | #162 | 1.0 |
| 1965 | 2,254 | #137 | 1.2 |
| 1964 | 2,852 | #121 | 1.4 |
| 1963 | 3,218 | #111 | 1.6 |
| 1962 | 3,410 | #110 | 1.6 |
| 1961 | 3,732 | #108 | 1.8 |
| 1960 | 4,217 | #101 | 2.0 |
| 1959 | 4,936 | #89 | 2.3 |
| 1958 | 5,461 | #77 | 2.6 |
| 1957 | 4,663 | #87 | 2.2 |
| 1956 | 3,655 | #100 | 1.7 |
| 1955 | 3,150 | #109 | 1.5 |
| 1954 | 3,370 | #102 | 1.7 |
| 1953 | 3,173 | #101 | 1.6 |
| 1952 | 2,583 | #119 | 1.3 |
| 1951 | 1,896 | #143 | 1.0 |
| 1950 | 1,484 | #168 | 0.83 |
| 1949 | 1,362 | #170 | 0.77 |
| 1948 | 1,279 | #174 | 0.73 |
| 1947 | 1,120 | #183 | 0.61 |
| 1946 | 828 | #208 | 0.51 |
| 1945 | 504 | #260 | 0.37 |
| 1944 | 431 | #286 | 0.32 |
| 1943 | 237 | #400 | 0.17 |
| 1942 | 96 | #661 | 0.07 |
| 1941 | 60 | #825 | 0.05 |
| 1940 | 55 | #857 | 0.05 |
| 1939 | 37 | #1,067 | 0.03 |
| 1938 | 38 | #1,060 | 0.03 |
| 1937 | 33 | #1,163 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 34 | #1,140 | 0.03 |
| 1935 | 17 | #1,747 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 21 | #1,544 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 22 | #1,494 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 21 | #1,576 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 26 | #1,386 | 0.03 |
| 1930 | 20 | #1,686 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 21 | #1,663 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 17 | #1,949 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 20 | #1,784 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 17 | #1,963 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 13 | #2,406 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,597 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,125 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 7 | #3,801 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 5 | #4,848 | under 0.01 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,076 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Rick a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rick has been given almost only to boys: 135 girls in 106 years of records.
Girls and boys named Rick: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rick, and how old are they?
61,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 75% of the 81,964 Americans ever recorded as Rick. The median Rick alive today is 65 years old; half are between 57 and 70.
The 2020 Census counted 98,277 people named Rick (159 women and girls, 98,118 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 66,478 born in the U.S. The Census count is 48% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 596 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 39,200 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 12,900 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5,560 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,110 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 765 |
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 Rick born?
The states with the most babies named Rick are California, Ohio and Michigan, with 33% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 12,342 | #1,952 | 1.7× |
| Ohio | 7,035 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Michigan | 6,076 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Illinois | 5,033 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Indiana | 4,376 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Washington | 3,352 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Wisconsin | 3,032 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Iowa | 2,926 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Texas | 2,794 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 2,793 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Rick is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rick is most over-represented in Idaho: since 1919 it was given 2.5 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 Rick 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, Rick is the most given (98% of them). In 2025 it was given to 40 of their 40 babies (100%), again the most given.
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 Rick
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 Rick and names like it
- Compare Rick and RicBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sRick peaked in 1958.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rick since 1910.
- The top names of 1958The year the most babies were named Rick.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Rick alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with RMost given first.