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Dickey

Boys' name

King, ruler + hard, brave, through Richard

Dickey has been given to 918 babies in the U.S. since 1922. 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 1948, with 38 recorded.

Babies named Dickey, 1978

1 in 635,000

Dickey over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dickey: meaning, origin, and history

King, ruler + hard, brave, through Richard

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dickey means

Dickey belongs to the name family reached through Dickey → Richard. Its meaning is “king, ruler + hard, brave”.

Origin, language, and formation

Dickey is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Richard.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Dickey is pronounced /ˈdɪki/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 918 boys were recorded with the name Dickey between 1922 and 1978. Its highest annual count was 38 in 1948; its best national rank was #1,095 in 1941.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Dickey?

Dickey had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1978, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1978
1 in 635,000
5 of 3,173,639 births
Among boys only
1 in 328,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1978
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
439,961 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dickey 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 1978 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 439,961 children born in 1978 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dickey. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dickeys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dickey was born before 1949 — so the typical Dickey is around 76 today.

Median birth year
1949
About 76 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
28.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
37.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
446
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1940s — 28.8% of all recorded uses (264).

Is Dickey 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1948 (38)
Years since peak
77
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,095
1941

Spellings of Dickey

Dickey is not the most common spelling — Ricky is, with 60.6% against Dickey's 0.25%.

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 Dickey is used

Across 1910–2025, Dickey was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 154,965 across all states with data. It was least common in Alabama (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arkansas1 in 100,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 100,000
  3. 3Alabama1 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. Dickey has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dickey 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
#1,095
1941
Peak year
1948
38 that year
First recorded
1922
Last recorded
1978
All-time count
918
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dickey

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

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Sibling names for Dickey

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

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