Girls' name · since 1972
Rickelle
301 babies named Rickelle in U.S. Social Security records since 1972, with the highest year being 1993. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #15,883 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 301
- born since 1972
- 1990s
- peak decade
Rickelle is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 301 have been recorded since 1972.
Rickelle has 301 recorded births among girls since 1972, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1990s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1972 to 2020.
- #15,883 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 301 born since 1972
- 1990s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Rickelle ranks #15,883 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 301 born since 1972, peaking in the 1990s.
- #15,883 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 301
- born since 1972
- 1990s
- peak decade
Rickelle's 301 recorded births place it above 78.03% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Rickelle's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Rickelle's full recorded timeline at 1997, 47% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 53% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1978, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1993 peak of 17 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Rickelle popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1972–2020
- Peak year (1993)
- 17
- Annual births at peak, across 49 years of records
Rickelle by decade
1990s is the heaviest window (106 births, 35% of the file).
1990s was Rickelle's strongest decade.
106 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 35% of all-time use.
Rickelle births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s 19
1970s
19 births
- 1980s
1980s
60 births
- 1990s
1990s
106 births
- 2000s
2000s
79 births
- 2010s 29
2010s
29 births
- 2020s 8
2020s
8 births
What this shows Peak: 1990s at 106 births (35% of all-time use).
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- Rickelle's decade-level peak was the 1990s (106 total births); usage has since declined to 8 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Nationwide names with similar peak year or record span
Two nationwide peer axes for Rickelle: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1993)
Similar record span (~48 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1972–2020 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Rickelle draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.