Ricki — #4899 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Ricki

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,414 babies named Ricki between 1938 and 2024, spanning 87 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ricki currently holds the #4899 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1994, when 197 babies received it in a single year. Ricki is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 2,303 additional births since 1942.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ricki performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 1,077 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Ricki shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 426 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Ricki in 23 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ricki in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 4,414 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.