Meaning not yet researched.
Rico: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 89 in 2025. Its best rank was #436 in 1976.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #436 in 1976; #1,805 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Rico in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,805 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1976, at #436.
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Rico: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 89 boys in 2025. Peak: #436 in 1976 · most boys in one year: 319 (1991).
In 2025, 89 US boys were named Rico, making it the 1,805th most common boys’ name of the year, down 110 places from #1,695 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 99 boys named Rico in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #436, reached in 1976. The most boys given the name in a single year was 319, in 1991. For comparison, it was #1,403 in 2015 and #2,975 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rico in 98 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 11 babies. In all, 9,971 US babies have been given the name, 0.5% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 2,085 babies named Rico.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,184 US boys were named Rico; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 148. In 2025 that was about 1 in 19,192 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Rico ranked highest in Washington in 2025, at #977 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Ricco, Reco and Reiko 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ricco (1,477), Reco (1,202), Reiko (690), Riku (483), Riko (196), Ricko (55), Recco (50), Reko (42), Ryko (13), Reico (10), Ricoh (7).
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 Rico in the open dataset we use.
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 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington | 6 | #977 | — |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,228 | #1,064 |
| California | 16 | #1,230 | #1,431 |
| Texas | 17 | #1,245 | #1,141 |
| Florida | 5 | #2,037 | #1,491 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 89 | #1,805 |
| 2024 | — | — | 99 | #1,695 |
| 2023 | — | — | 107 | #1,630 |
| 2022 | — | — | 105 | #1,648 |
| 2021 | — | — | 125 | #1,448 |
| 2020 | — | — | 120 | #1,448 |
| 2019 | — | — | 137 | #1,333 |
| 2018 | — | — | 133 | #1,350 |
| 2017 | — | — | 148 | #1,243 |
| 2016 | — | — | 121 | #1,441 |
| 2015 | — | — | 123 | #1,403 |
| 2014 | — | — | 150 | #1,224 |
| 2013 | — | — | 127 | #1,342 |
| 2012 | — | — | 108 | #1,496 |
| 2011 | — | — | 143 | #1,227 |
| 2010 | — | — | 133 | #1,295 |
| 2009 | — | — | 126 | #1,365 |
| 2008 | — | — | 150 | #1,185 |
| 2007 | — | — | 148 | #1,194 |
| 2006 | — | — | 144 | #1,177 |
| 2005 | — | — | 116 | #1,314 |
| 2004 | — | — | 150 | #1,070 |
| 2003 | — | — | 114 | #1,266 |
| 2002 | — | — | 121 | #1,173 |
| 2001 | — | — | 103 | #1,285 |
| 2000 | — | — | 126 | #1,119 |
| 1999 | — | — | 130 | #1,057 |
| 1998 | — | — | 146 | #955 |
| 1997 | — | — | 143 | #945 |
| 1996 | — | — | 137 | #947 |
| 1995 | — | — | 157 | #870 |
| 1994 | — | — | 177 | #800 |
| 1993 | — | — | 232 | #674 |
| 1992 | — | — | 236 | #676 |
| 1991 | — | — | 319 | #566 |
| 1990 | — | — | 295 | #585 |
| 1989 | — | — | 280 | #585 |
| 1988 | — | — | 214 | #648 |
| 1987 | — | — | 175 | #687 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,588 | 184 | #662 |
| 1985 | — | — | 146 | #732 |
| 1984 | — | — | 144 | #728 |
| 1983 | — | — | 157 | #684 |
| 1982 | — | — | 177 | #656 |
| 1981 | — | — | 151 | #705 |
| 1980 | — | — | 216 | #585 |
| 1979 | — | — | 200 | #608 |
| 1978 | — | — | 225 | #557 |
| 1977 | — | — | 233 | #547 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,458 | 318 | #436 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,867 | 222 | #540 |
| 1974 | — | — | 192 | #580 |
| 1973 | — | — | 175 | #596 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,412 | 152 | #648 |
| 1971 | — | — | 190 | #604 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,716 | 142 | #698 |
| 1969 | — | — | 71 | #909 |
| 1968 | — | — | 64 | #908 |
| 1967 | — | — | 47 | #1,081 |
| 1966 | — | — | 40 | #1,190 |
| 1965 | — | — | 43 | #1,158 |
| 1964 | — | — | 40 | #1,230 |
| 1963 | — | — | 38 | #1,271 |
| 1962 | — | — | 27 | #1,539 |
| 1961 | — | — | 59 | #1,025 |
| 1960 | — | — | 31 | #1,458 |
| 1959 | — | — | 36 | #1,317 |
| 1958 | — | — | 16 | #2,079 |
| 1957 | — | — | 23 | #1,711 |
| 1956 | — | — | 28 | #1,506 |
| 1955 | — | — | 17 | #1,959 |
| 1954 | — | — | 13 | #2,296 |
| 1953 | — | — | 10 | #2,677 |
| 1952 | — | — | 13 | #2,231 |
| 1951 | — | — | 13 | #2,228 |
| 1950 | — | — | 8 | #2,975 |
| 1949 | — | — | 14 | #2,102 |
| 1948 | — | — | 6 | #3,599 |
| 1947 | — | — | 6 | #3,671 |
| 1944 | — | — | 5 | #3,816 |
| 1943 | — | — | 7 | #3,178 |
| 1942 | — | — | 7 | #3,159 |
| 1940 | — | — | 5 | #3,840 |
| 1937 | — | — | 9 | #2,635 |
| 1935 | — | — | 7 | #3,199 |
| 1934 | — | — | 6 | #3,600 |
| 1932 | — | — | 7 | #3,309 |
| 1929 | — | — | 6 | #3,874 |
| 1928 | — | — | 9 | #3,026 |
| 1926 | — | — | 8 | #3,325 |
| 1924 | — | — | 5 | #4,835 |
| 1923 | — | — | 5 | #4,773 |
| 1922 | — | — | 5 | #4,834 |
| 1921 | — | — | 6 | #4,241 |
| 1920 | — | — | 9 | #3,164 |
| 1918 | — | — | 7 | #3,640 |
| 1917 | — | — | 8 | #3,157 |
| 1915 | — | — | 11 | #2,427 |
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).