Ricki
Ricki was given to 28 girls in 2025, #4,852 among girls’ names; 6,745 Americans have been recorded with it since 1938 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,750 Americans named Ricki and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (85% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 30 and 68.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ricki by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ricki mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ricki is “a female given name from the Germanic languages and a nickname of modern usage, also spelled Rikki.”
Also “a diminutive of the male given name Richard, more often spelled Rickie or Ricky.”
From Richard. As a female name also from Erica.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ricki?
#4,852 among girls’ names, 2025
Ricki fell from #3,971 in 2015 to #4,852 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 21.3 to 17.4 per million.
238 babies in 1953, the peak
Ricki peaked in 1953, when 238 babies were given it (91 girls, #1,012 among girls’ names). The 28 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28 | #4,852 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 27 | #4,997 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,906 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,272 | 6 | #12,015 |
| 2021 | 28 | #4,810 | 5 | #13,670 |
| 2020 | 33 | #4,240 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | 35 | #4,139 | 6 | #11,839 |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,331 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 33 | #4,357 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,420 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (88)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 38 | #3,971 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | 26 | #5,282 | 5 | #13,624 |
| 2013 | 28 | #4,999 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 24 | #5,680 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 27 | #5,173 | 10 | #7,946 |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,560 | 7 | #10,512 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,262 | 8 | #9,680 |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,112 | 8 | #9,664 |
| 2007 | 29 | #5,066 | 11 | #7,479 |
| 2006 | 28 | #5,066 | 7 | #10,418 |
| 2005 | 36 | #4,012 | 7 | #9,903 |
| 2004 | 38 | #3,799 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 42 | #3,450 | 7 | #9,391 |
| 2002 | 48 | #3,051 | 14 | #5,331 |
| 2001 | 68 | #2,349 | 12 | #5,933 |
| 2000 | 62 | #2,472 | 15 | #4,989 |
| 1999 | 105 | #1,608 | 18 | #4,117 |
| 1998 | 92 | #1,729 | 21 | #3,569 |
| 1997 | 130 | #1,331 | 18 | #3,845 |
| 1996 | 143 | #1,228 | 14 | #4,558 |
| 1995 | 196 | #962 | 30 | #2,537 |
| 1994 | 197 | #946 | 22 | #3,184 |
| 1993 | 63 | #2,139 | 21 | #3,221 |
| 1992 | 46 | #2,670 | 21 | #3,188 |
| 1991 | 46 | #2,642 | 15 | #3,965 |
| 1990 | 59 | #2,191 | 13 | #4,353 |
| 1989 | 50 | #2,355 | 21 | #2,970 |
| 1988 | 44 | #2,475 | 27 | #2,290 |
| 1987 | 49 | #2,223 | 19 | #2,807 |
| 1986 | 53 | #2,046 | 22 | #2,488 |
| 1985 | 49 | #2,164 | 13 | #3,555 |
| 1984 | 57 | #1,882 | 18 | #2,683 |
| 1983 | 47 | #2,122 | 11 | #3,818 |
| 1982 | 61 | #1,802 | 12 | #3,641 |
| 1981 | 64 | #1,764 | 15 | #2,996 |
| 1980 | 47 | #2,177 | 19 | #2,598 |
| 1979 | 52 | #1,993 | 22 | #2,293 |
| 1978 | 42 | #2,225 | 22 | #2,187 |
| 1977 | 40 | #2,293 | 23 | #2,114 |
| 1976 | 37 | #2,285 | 16 | #2,685 |
| 1975 | 56 | #1,704 | 23 | #2,050 |
| 1974 | 52 | #1,754 | 21 | #2,106 |
| 1973 | 42 | #1,970 | 19 | #2,193 |
| 1972 | 39 | #2,042 | 14 | #2,634 |
| 1971 | 53 | #1,723 | 17 | #2,348 |
| 1970 | 46 | #1,897 | 25 | #1,784 |
| 1969 | 43 | #1,913 | 21 | #1,850 |
| 1968 | 46 | #1,747 | 31 | #1,420 |
| 1967 | 43 | #1,778 | 27 | #1,498 |
| 1966 | 34 | #2,014 | 30 | #1,419 |
| 1965 | 33 | #2,053 | 34 | #1,331 |
| 1964 | 43 | #1,798 | 37 | #1,307 |
| 1963 | 44 | #1,748 | 39 | #1,251 |
| 1962 | 36 | #1,937 | 48 | #1,117 |
| 1961 | 38 | #1,884 | 61 | #999 |
| 1960 | 37 | #1,879 | 69 | #913 |
| 1959 | 51 | #1,532 | 80 | #851 |
| 1958 | 39 | #1,758 | 101 | #736 |
| 1957 | 49 | #1,544 | 122 | #692 |
| 1956 | 59 | #1,360 | 118 | #686 |
| 1955 | 56 | #1,354 | 121 | #667 |
| 1954 | 72 | #1,184 | 140 | #625 |
| 1953 | 91 | #1,012 | 147 | #595 |
| 1952 | 108 | #890 | 92 | #736 |
| 1951 | 125 | #797 | 80 | #789 |
| 1950 | 71 | #1,096 | 39 | #1,160 |
| 1949 | 75 | #1,036 | 34 | #1,248 |
| 1948 | 69 | #1,066 | 42 | #1,102 |
| 1947 | 86 | #961 | 31 | #1,333 |
| 1946 | 45 | #1,301 | 24 | #1,464 |
| 1945 | 42 | #1,246 | 16 | #1,752 |
| 1944 | 33 | #1,424 | 8 | #2,819 |
| 1943 | 22 | #1,886 | 6 | #3,484 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,664 | 5 | #3,951 |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,197 | under 5 | |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,784 | under 5 | |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,361 | under 5 | |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,861 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Ricki a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 6,745 Americans recorded as Ricki, 66% are girls and 34% boys. Girls have outnumbered boys among babies named Ricki every year since 1994. In 2025 it went to 28 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Ricki: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ricki, and how old are they?
5,750 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 85% of the 6,745 Americans ever recorded as Ricki. The median Ricki alive today is 46 years old; half are between 30 and 68.
The 2020 Census counted 5,253 people named Ricki (3,582 women and girls, 1,671 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,867 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 84 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,860 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 974 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,470 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 955 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 400 |
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 Ricki born?
The states with the most babies named Ricki are California, Texas and New York, with 55% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 522 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 387 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 333 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 172 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 166 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 159 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Indiana | 105 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 70 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Iowa | 53 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 43 | not ranked | 0.2× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ 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 Ricki 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 17,932 babies since 1880, Ricki is the second most given (38% of them). In 2025 it was given to 28 of their 89 babies (31%), again the second 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 Ricki
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1930-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Randie | 2,058 |
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 Ricki and names like it
- Compare Ricki and RikkiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sRicki peaked in 1953.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ricki since 1910.
- Germanic namesWiktionary’s origin for Ricki: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1953The year the most babies were named Ricki.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Ricki alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with RMost given first.