Meaning not yet researched.
Rickey: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 45 in 2025. Its best rank was #106 in 1958.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #106 in 1958; #2,827 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Rickey in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,827 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1958, at #106.
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Rickey: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 45 boys in 2025. Peak: #106 in 1958 · most boys in one year: 3,782 (1958).
In 2025, 45 US boys were named Rickey, making it the 2,827th most common boys’ name of the year, down 41 places from #2,786 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 47 boys named Rickey in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #106, reached in 1958. That year also had the most boys given the name: 3,782. For comparison, it was #1,736 in 2015 and #173 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rickey in 100 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1924 with 5 babies. In all, 62,391 US babies have been given the name, 1.1% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 28,179 babies named Rickey.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 613 US boys were named Rickey; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 86. In 2025 that was about 1 in 37,957 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Rickey ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #1,791 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ricky (225,089 babies since 1880), Rickie (18,237 babies since 1880) and Ricki (6,745 babies since 1880).
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.
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.
No nicknames listed for Rickey in the open dataset we use.
Rickey is listed as a nickname for Frederica, Fredericka.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 6 | #1,791 | — |
| California | 6 | #2,408 | #2,006 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 45 | #2,827 |
| 2024 | — | — | 47 | #2,786 |
| 2023 | — | — | 43 | #2,936 |
| 2022 | — | — | 47 | #2,787 |
| 2021 | — | — | 69 | #2,104 |
| 2020 | — | — | 66 | #2,132 |
| 2019 | — | — | 66 | #2,167 |
| 2018 | — | — | 66 | #2,138 |
| 2017 | — | — | 86 | #1,789 |
| 2016 | — | — | 78 | #1,899 |
| 2015 | — | — | 89 | #1,736 |
| 2014 | — | — | 107 | #1,511 |
| 2013 | — | — | 105 | #1,534 |
| 2012 | — | — | 97 | #1,613 |
| 2011 | — | — | 109 | #1,491 |
| 2010 | — | — | 119 | #1,406 |
| 2009 | — | — | 123 | #1,388 |
| 2008 | — | — | 130 | #1,332 |
| 2007 | — | — | 148 | #1,193 |
| 2006 | — | — | 165 | #1,079 |
| 2005 | — | — | 149 | #1,109 |
| 2004 | — | — | 143 | #1,113 |
| 2003 | — | — | 141 | #1,096 |
| 2002 | — | — | 172 | #936 |
| 2001 | — | — | 167 | #933 |
| 2000 | — | — | 176 | #892 |
| 1999 | — | — | 188 | #815 |
| 1998 | — | — | 160 | #905 |
| 1997 | — | — | 224 | #707 |
| 1996 | — | — | 211 | #729 |
| 1995 | — | — | 251 | #660 |
| 1994 | — | — | 252 | #658 |
| 1993 | — | — | 311 | #586 |
| 1992 | — | — | 324 | #566 |
| 1991 | — | — | 363 | #531 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,541 | 382 | #504 |
| 1989 | — | — | 424 | #456 |
| 1988 | — | — | 429 | #437 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,931 | 406 | #442 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,306 | 434 | #410 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,323 | 500 | #370 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,903 | 510 | #357 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,924 | 502 | #355 |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,158 | 556 | #339 |
| 1981 | 6 | #10,058 | 580 | #330 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,963 | 576 | #329 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,742 | 526 | #344 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,796 | 500 | #344 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,737 | 553 | #330 |
| 1976 | 8 | #7,107 | 551 | #322 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,327 | 534 | #329 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,716 | 477 | #354 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,426 | 496 | #342 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,273 | 504 | #342 |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,089 | 525 | #349 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,233 | 561 | #340 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,971 | 594 | #314 |
| 1968 | 9 | #5,059 | 768 | #260 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,888 | 766 | #263 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,415 | 945 | #227 |
| 1965 | 17 | #3,127 | 1,118 | #215 |
| 1964 | 18 | #3,077 | 1,356 | #205 |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,594 | 1,680 | #175 |
| 1962 | 22 | #2,647 | 1,887 | #169 |
| 1961 | 27 | #2,345 | 2,255 | #153 |
| 1960 | 19 | #2,884 | 2,573 | #138 |
| 1959 | 25 | #2,325 | 3,458 | #117 |
| 1958 | 36 | #1,847 | 3,782 | #106 |
| 1957 | 15 | #3,121 | 3,522 | #108 |
| 1956 | 21 | #2,516 | 3,263 | #112 |
| 1955 | 20 | #2,534 | 3,065 | #114 |
| 1954 | 33 | #1,824 | 3,130 | #113 |
| 1953 | 17 | #2,678 | 2,840 | #113 |
| 1952 | 21 | #2,319 | 2,052 | #140 |
| 1951 | 16 | #2,673 | 1,543 | #166 |
| 1950 | 19 | #2,321 | 1,301 | #173 |
| 1949 | 19 | #2,326 | 1,087 | #191 |
| 1948 | 29 | #1,766 | 1,020 | #197 |
| 1947 | 34 | #1,659 | 809 | #226 |
| 1946 | 16 | #2,468 | 483 | #294 |
| 1945 | 24 | #1,733 | 262 | #372 |
| 1944 | 18 | #2,085 | 207 | #424 |
| 1943 | 7 | #4,117 | 104 | #622 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,959 | 66 | #793 |
| 1941 | — | — | 41 | #1,014 |
| 1940 | — | — | 20 | #1,558 |
| 1939 | — | — | 15 | #1,855 |
| 1938 | — | — | 19 | #1,604 |
| 1937 | — | — | 12 | #2,173 |
| 1936 | — | — | 22 | #1,453 |
| 1935 | — | — | 10 | #2,503 |
| 1934 | — | — | 16 | #1,842 |
| 1933 | — | — | 19 | #1,632 |
| 1932 | — | — | 5 | #4,185 |
| 1931 | — | — | 6 | #3,678 |
| 1930 | — | — | 9 | #2,968 |
| 1929 | — | — | 6 | #3,873 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,300 | 7 | #3,641 |
| 1925 | — | — | 6 | #4,109 |
| 1924 | — | — | 5 | #4,834 |
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).