Bucky

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Bucky has been given to 1,027 babies in the U.S. since 1931. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1979, with 50 recorded.

Babies named Bucky, 2024

1 in 669,000

Bucky over time, 1880–2025

Boys

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bucky: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Bucky means

Bucky is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Bucky is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,027 boys were recorded with the name Bucky between 1931 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 50 in 1979; its best national rank was #1,278 in 1958.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Bucky?

Bucky had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024: 1 in 669,000; 5 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only: 1 in 345,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 463,412 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Bucky sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bucky. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Buckys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bucky was born before 1965 — so the typical Bucky is around 60 today.

Median birth year: 1965; About 60 years old
Biggest decade: 1970s; 26.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 4.5%; Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950: 816; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1970s — 26.1% of all recorded uses (268).

Is Bucky rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1979 (50)
Years since peak: 46; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 27.5% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,278; 1958

Spellings of Bucky

Bucky is not the most common spelling — Ricky is, with 70.8% against Bucky's 0.33%.

Ricky70.8%223,145
Rocky9.1%28,687
Buddy7.1%22,540
Nicky2.4%7,475
Buck2.1%6,610
Jacky2.1%6,589
Burke1.3%4,118
Beck1.3%3,983

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Bucky is used

Across 1910–2025, Bucky was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 377,171 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Georgia1 in —
2Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Bucky has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Bucky by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #1,278; 1958
Peak year: 1979; 50 that year
First recorded: 1931
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 1,027
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Bucky

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Buckley Micky Lucky Dicky Buck Jacky Nicky Vicky Chucky Becky Macky Buchanan Rocky Bucklee Buckie Ricky Buckey Buckner Francky Kentucky

Sibling names for Bucky

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Shanika Mellissa Latosha Adria Lani Malissa Lindy Shanta

For a brother

Delvin Leopoldo Jerod Cedrick Reggie Torrey Jed Wilfredo

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