Meaning not yet researched.
Ricki: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 28 in 2025. Its best rank was #798 in 1951.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #798 in 1951; #4,853 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ricki in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,853 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1951, at #798.
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Ricki: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 28 girls in 2025. Peak: #798 in 1951 · most girls in one year: 197 (1994).
In 2025, 28 US girls were named Ricki, making it the 4,853rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 147 places from #5,000 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 27 girls named Ricki in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #798, reached in 1951. The most girls given the name in a single year was 197, in 1994. For comparison, it was #3,972 in 2015 and #1,097 in 1950.
Fewer than five US boys were named Ricki in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #596, reached in 1953. That year also had the most boys given the name: 147. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and #1,161 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ricki in 88 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1938 with 5 babies. In all, 6,745 US babies have been given the name, 66% of them girls and 34% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 1,761 babies named Ricki.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 288 US girls were named Ricki; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 35. In 2025 that was about 1 in 57,402 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Ricky (225,089 babies since 1880), Rickie (18,237 babies since 1880), Rikki (7,712 babies since 1880) and Rickey (62,391 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Riqui are summarised on this page.
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: Riqui (19).
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 Ricki in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28 | #4,853 | — | — |
| 2024 | 27 | #5,000 | — | — |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,911 | — | — |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,275 | 6 | #12,021 |
| 2021 | 28 | #4,814 | 5 | #13,676 |
| 2020 | 33 | #4,242 | — | — |
| 2019 | 35 | #4,140 | 6 | #11,844 |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,332 | — | — |
| 2017 | 33 | #4,358 | — | — |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,421 | — | — |
| 2015 | 38 | #3,972 | — | — |
| 2014 | 26 | #5,284 | 5 | #13,630 |
| 2013 | 28 | #5,001 | — | — |
| 2012 | 24 | #5,683 | — | — |
| 2011 | 27 | #5,175 | 10 | #7,953 |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,562 | 7 | #10,519 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,265 | 8 | #9,685 |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,114 | 8 | #9,671 |
| 2007 | 29 | #5,068 | 11 | #7,483 |
| 2006 | 28 | #5,067 | 7 | #10,425 |
| 2005 | 36 | #4,016 | 7 | #9,910 |
| 2004 | 38 | #3,803 | — | — |
| 2003 | 42 | #3,454 | 7 | #9,398 |
| 2002 | 48 | #3,055 | 14 | #5,338 |
| 2001 | 68 | #2,353 | 12 | #5,940 |
| 2000 | 62 | #2,476 | 15 | #4,996 |
| 1999 | 105 | #1,610 | 18 | #4,122 |
| 1998 | 92 | #1,731 | 21 | #3,573 |
| 1997 | 130 | #1,333 | 18 | #3,850 |
| 1996 | 143 | #1,230 | 14 | #4,564 |
| 1995 | 196 | #965 | 30 | #2,542 |
| 1994 | 197 | #947 | 22 | #3,190 |
| 1993 | 63 | #2,144 | 21 | #3,227 |
| 1992 | 46 | #2,675 | 21 | #3,194 |
| 1991 | 46 | #2,648 | 15 | #3,972 |
| 1990 | 59 | #2,196 | 13 | #4,359 |
| 1989 | 50 | #2,360 | 21 | #2,976 |
| 1988 | 44 | #2,480 | 27 | #2,295 |
| 1987 | 49 | #2,225 | 19 | #2,811 |
| 1986 | 53 | #2,047 | 22 | #2,490 |
| 1985 | 49 | #2,165 | 13 | #3,558 |
| 1984 | 57 | #1,882 | 18 | #2,684 |
| 1983 | 47 | #2,123 | 11 | #3,820 |
| 1982 | 61 | #1,802 | 12 | #3,642 |
| 1981 | 64 | #1,764 | 15 | #2,998 |
| 1980 | 47 | #2,177 | 19 | #2,599 |
| 1979 | 52 | #1,993 | 22 | #2,294 |
| 1978 | 42 | #2,225 | 22 | #2,187 |
| 1977 | 40 | #2,293 | 23 | #2,114 |
| 1976 | 37 | #2,285 | 16 | #2,686 |
| 1975 | 56 | #1,704 | 23 | #2,051 |
| 1974 | 52 | #1,754 | 21 | #2,106 |
| 1973 | 42 | #1,970 | 19 | #2,195 |
| 1972 | 39 | #2,042 | 14 | #2,635 |
| 1971 | 53 | #1,723 | 17 | #2,349 |
| 1970 | 46 | #1,897 | 25 | #1,785 |
| 1969 | 43 | #1,913 | 21 | #1,851 |
| 1968 | 46 | #1,747 | 31 | #1,420 |
| 1967 | 43 | #1,778 | 27 | #1,499 |
| 1966 | 34 | #2,014 | 30 | #1,420 |
| 1965 | 33 | #2,053 | 34 | #1,332 |
| 1964 | 43 | #1,799 | 37 | #1,308 |
| 1963 | 44 | #1,749 | 39 | #1,252 |
| 1962 | 36 | #1,938 | 48 | #1,118 |
| 1961 | 38 | #1,885 | 61 | #1,000 |
| 1960 | 37 | #1,880 | 69 | #914 |
| 1959 | 51 | #1,533 | 80 | #852 |
| 1958 | 39 | #1,759 | 101 | #737 |
| 1957 | 49 | #1,545 | 122 | #693 |
| 1956 | 59 | #1,361 | 118 | #687 |
| 1955 | 56 | #1,355 | 121 | #668 |
| 1954 | 72 | #1,185 | 140 | #626 |
| 1953 | 91 | #1,013 | 147 | #596 |
| 1952 | 108 | #891 | 92 | #737 |
| 1951 | 125 | #798 | 80 | #790 |
| 1950 | 71 | #1,097 | 39 | #1,161 |
| 1949 | 75 | #1,037 | 34 | #1,249 |
| 1948 | 69 | #1,067 | 42 | #1,103 |
| 1947 | 86 | #962 | 31 | #1,334 |
| 1946 | 45 | #1,302 | 24 | #1,465 |
| 1945 | 42 | #1,247 | 16 | #1,753 |
| 1944 | 33 | #1,425 | 8 | #2,820 |
| 1943 | 22 | #1,887 | 6 | #3,485 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,666 | 5 | #3,952 |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,199 | — | — |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,786 | — | — |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,363 | — | — |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,863 | — | — |
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).