Vickey
Vickey was last recorded in 1997, when 6 babies were given it; 5,947 Americans have been recorded with it between 1916 and 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,720 Americans named Vickey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (79% of everyone recorded); the median is 67 years old and half are between 62 and 72.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Vickey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Vickey mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Vickey is “a diminutive of the female given name Victoria, variant of Vicky.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Vickey?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,657, in 1997; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
402 babies in 1957, the peak
Vickey peaked in 1957, when 402 babies were given it (395 girls, #476 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 6 | #13,657 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,453 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 6 | #13,333 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,308 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,370 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,810 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,744 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,971 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,497 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,336 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (70)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 7 | #9,113 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,473 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,708 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,334 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,322 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 16 | #4,622 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 25 | #3,193 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 22 | #3,480 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 33 | #2,484 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 35 | #2,355 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 36 | #2,251 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 56 | #1,646 | 0.04 |
| 1972 | 54 | #1,673 | 0.04 |
| 1971 | 72 | #1,455 | 0.04 |
| 1970 | 100 | #1,167 | 0.06 |
| 1969 | 76 | #1,301 | 0.05 |
| 1968 | 115 | #973 | 0.07 |
| 1967 | 136 | #875 | 0.08 |
| 1966 | 134 | #868 | 0.08 |
| 1965 | 155 | #796 | 0.09 |
| 1964 | 198 | #742 | 0.10 |
| 1963 | 218 | #684 | 0.11 |
| 1962 | 238 | #659 | 0.12 |
| 1961 | 249 | #649 | 0.12 |
| 1960 | 267 | #616 | 0.13 |
| 1959 | 307 | #557 | 0.15 |
| 1958 | 359 | #510 | 0.18 |
| 1957 | 395 | #476 | 0.19 |
| 1956 | 331 | #513 | 0.16 |
| 1955 | 276 | #549 | 0.14 |
| 1954 | 212 | #624 | 0.11 |
| 1953 | 200 | #630 | 0.11 |
| 1952 | 223 | #579 | 0.12 |
| 1951 | 190 | #628 | 0.11 |
| 1950 | 157 | #684 | 0.09 |
| 1949 | 124 | #777 | 0.07 |
| 1948 | 97 | #883 | 0.06 |
| 1947 | 103 | #868 | 0.06 |
| 1946 | 77 | #951 | 0.05 |
| 1945 | 80 | #848 | 0.06 |
| 1944 | 53 | #1,077 | 0.04 |
| 1943 | 52 | #1,122 | 0.04 |
| 1942 | 37 | #1,348 | 0.03 |
| 1941 | 13 | #2,526 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 18 | #1,958 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 15 | #2,203 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,926 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,423 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,725 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,730 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 5 | #5,051 | under 0.01 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,536 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,731 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,852 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,812 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,349 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,987 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,746 | under 0.01 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,938 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 5 | #5,122 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Vickey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 5,947 Americans recorded as Vickey, 98% are girls and 2% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Vickey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Vickey, and how old are they?
4,720 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 79% of the 5,947 Americans ever recorded as Vickey. The median Vickey alive today is 67 years old; half are between 62 and 72.
The 2020 Census counted 4,464 people named Vickey (4,376 women and girls, 88 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,078 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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 | 155 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 3,450 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 989 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 126 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 6 |
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 Vickey born?
The states with the most babies named Vickey are Texas, California and Tennessee, with 29% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 559 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| California | 308 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Tennessee | 303 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Georgia | 286 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Alabama | 248 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Ohio | 240 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 237 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 227 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Missouri | 170 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Michigan | 145 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Vickey is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Vickey is most over-represented in Tennessee: since 1916 it was given 2.3 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 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 Vickey 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 325,169 babies since 1880, Vickey is the fourth most given (1.8% of them). In 2025 none of their 35 babies recorded by SSA was a Vickey (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Vickey
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 Vickey and names like it
- Compare Vickey and VickiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sVickey peaked in 1957.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Vickey since 1910.
- The top names of 1957The year the most babies were named Vickey.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Vickey alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with VMost given first.