How Many People Are Named Rickie?

14,003

people named Rickie are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 24,407 people in the US has this name

Based on 18,237 babies named Rickie in Social Security records from 1896 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#1,988

💎 Rare

Rank Among Boy Names

#811

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Peak Year

1954

1,055 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: RIK-ee
Gender: Primarily Male

Meaning:

Diminutive of RICHARD.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Rickie in English. Counting Rickie and these spellings together, about 247,952 people alive in the US have the name.

Related & Similar Names

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
11.1%
Male
88.9%

Of the babies given the name Rickie, 11.1% were girls and 88.9% were boys. The share of girls among babies named Rickie rose from 21.6% in the 1940s to 34.5% in the 2020s. It was lowest in the 1960s, at 4.9%.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Rickie alive today is about 57 years old, and 60% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 47 and 70 in 2025.

Under 30 1,275
9.1%
30 to 59 4,257
30.4%
60 and over 8,472
60.5%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Rickie first appears in the records in 1896 and was given most often in 1954, to 1,055 babies. In 2025, 27 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1896 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Rickie has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #218, in 1954. In 2025 it ranked #6,724. Among girls, its best rank was #1,065, in 1947.

BoysGirls
Rank in 2025#6,724#7,820
Best rank#218 (1954)#1,065 (1947)
Years in the top 100NoneNone
Rank in its biggest decade#253 in the 1950s#1,491 in the 1950s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Rickie alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Rickie were born in Texas than in any other state: about 937 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Rickie was given 3.1 times as often in Kentucky, 2.3 times in Indiana and 2.1 times in Arkansas.

Texas 937
California 833
Ohio 746
Indiana 587
Kentucky 556
North Carolina 512
Illinois 501
Missouri 459
Tennessee 417
Michigan 379
Louisiana 333
Pennsylvania 323
New York 312
Virginia 295
Florida 293
Georgia 266
Arkansas 211
Iowa 208
Mississippi 189
West Virginia 185
South Carolina 184
Oklahoma 178
Alabama 176
Kansas 142
Wisconsin 87
Colorado 78
Minnesota 76
Washington 67
Nebraska 65
Oregon 61
New Jersey 57
Maryland 50
Utah 40
Idaho 28
South Dakota 26
North Dakota 21
District of Columbia 18
Arizona 12
Massachusetts 9
New Mexico 9
Maine 7
Hawaii 4
Montana 4
Wyoming 4

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