Meaning not yet researched.
Rick: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 40 in 2025. Its best rank was #77 in 1958.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #77 in 1958; #3,077 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Rick in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,077 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1958, at #77.
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Rick: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 40 boys in 2025. Peak: #77 in 1958 · most boys in one year: 5,461 (1958).
In 2025, 40 US boys were named Rick, making it the 3,077th most common boys’ name of the year, down 130 places from #2,947 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 43 boys named Rick in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #77, reached in 1958. That year also had the most boys given the name: 5,461. For comparison, it was #1,841 in 2015 and #168 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rick in 106 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1919 with 6 babies. In all, 81,964 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 34,411 babies named Rick.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 529 US boys were named Rick; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 80. In 2025 that was about 1 in 42,702 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Richard (2,587,082 babies since 1880), Ricardo (147,169 babies since 1880), Rickie (18,237 babies since 1880) and Rich (4,407 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ric, Rece and Rik are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Ricky.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ric (1,270), Rece (527), Rik (288), Rice (287), Ricke (192), Reice (119), Ryce (52), Reik (37), Riece (32), Rikke (16), Ryuk (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 40 | #3,077 |
| 2024 | — | — | 43 | #2,947 |
| 2023 | — | — | 43 | #2,935 |
| 2022 | — | — | 46 | #2,823 |
| 2021 | — | — | 44 | #2,851 |
| 2020 | — | — | 53 | #2,458 |
| 2019 | — | — | 51 | #2,578 |
| 2018 | — | — | 80 | #1,885 |
| 2017 | — | — | 63 | #2,168 |
| 2016 | — | — | 66 | #2,130 |
| 2015 | — | — | 81 | #1,841 |
| 2014 | — | — | 88 | #1,724 |
| 2013 | — | — | 73 | #1,929 |
| 2012 | — | — | 82 | #1,809 |
| 2011 | — | — | 98 | #1,586 |
| 2010 | — | — | 108 | #1,513 |
| 2009 | — | — | 108 | #1,537 |
| 2008 | — | — | 111 | #1,481 |
| 2007 | — | — | 125 | #1,349 |
| 2006 | — | — | 133 | #1,264 |
| 2005 | — | — | 152 | #1,091 |
| 2004 | — | — | 120 | #1,265 |
| 2003 | — | — | 130 | #1,158 |
| 2002 | — | — | 148 | #1,041 |
| 2001 | — | — | 144 | #1,025 |
| 2000 | — | — | 165 | #928 |
| 1999 | — | — | 165 | #910 |
| 1998 | — | — | 165 | #886 |
| 1997 | — | — | 189 | #787 |
| 1996 | — | — | 214 | #725 |
| 1995 | — | — | 215 | #732 |
| 1994 | — | — | 266 | #636 |
| 1993 | — | — | 317 | #578 |
| 1992 | — | — | 312 | #576 |
| 1991 | — | — | 346 | #545 |
| 1990 | — | — | 377 | #510 |
| 1989 | — | — | 367 | #501 |
| 1988 | — | — | 385 | #465 |
| 1987 | — | — | 437 | #419 |
| 1986 | — | — | 418 | #421 |
| 1985 | — | — | 444 | #408 |
| 1984 | — | — | 387 | #421 |
| 1983 | — | — | 437 | #383 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,851 | 490 | #364 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,816 | 450 | #381 |
| 1980 | — | — | 442 | #390 |
| 1979 | — | — | 496 | #354 |
| 1978 | — | — | 403 | #388 |
| 1977 | — | — | 438 | #374 |
| 1976 | — | — | 457 | #357 |
| 1975 | — | — | 499 | #343 |
| 1974 | — | — | 516 | #339 |
| 1973 | — | — | 621 | #293 |
| 1972 | — | — | 682 | #280 |
| 1971 | — | — | 859 | #260 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,232 | 1,184 | #211 |
| 1969 | — | — | 1,272 | #200 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,828 | 1,431 | #182 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,610 | 1,587 | #167 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,370 | 1,744 | #162 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,189 | 2,254 | #137 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,572 | 2,852 | #121 |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,474 | 3,218 | #111 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,214 | 3,410 | #110 |
| 1961 | 13 | #3,751 | 3,732 | #108 |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,243 | 4,217 | #101 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,946 | 4,936 | #89 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,963 | 5,461 | #77 |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,145 | 4,663 | #87 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,699 | 3,655 | #100 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,701 | 3,150 | #109 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,445 | 3,370 | #102 |
| 1953 | — | — | 3,173 | #101 |
| 1952 | — | — | 2,583 | #119 |
| 1951 | — | — | 1,896 | #143 |
| 1950 | — | — | 1,484 | #168 |
| 1949 | — | — | 1,362 | #170 |
| 1948 | — | — | 1,279 | #174 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,953 | 1,120 | #183 |
| 1946 | — | — | 828 | #208 |
| 1945 | — | — | 504 | #260 |
| 1944 | — | — | 431 | #286 |
| 1943 | — | — | 237 | #400 |
| 1942 | — | — | 96 | #661 |
| 1941 | — | — | 60 | #825 |
| 1940 | — | — | 55 | #857 |
| 1939 | — | — | 37 | #1,067 |
| 1938 | — | — | 38 | #1,060 |
| 1937 | — | — | 33 | #1,163 |
| 1936 | — | — | 34 | #1,140 |
| 1935 | — | — | 17 | #1,747 |
| 1934 | — | — | 21 | #1,544 |
| 1933 | — | — | 22 | #1,494 |
| 1932 | — | — | 21 | #1,576 |
| 1931 | — | — | 26 | #1,386 |
| 1930 | — | — | 20 | #1,686 |
| 1929 | — | — | 21 | #1,663 |
| 1928 | — | — | 17 | #1,949 |
| 1927 | — | — | 20 | #1,784 |
| 1926 | — | — | 17 | #1,963 |
| 1925 | — | — | 13 | #2,407 |
| 1924 | — | — | 12 | #2,597 |
| 1923 | — | — | 9 | #3,127 |
| 1922 | — | — | 7 | #3,803 |
| 1921 | — | — | 5 | #4,850 |
| 1919 | — | — | 6 | #4,077 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).