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Dickie

UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

King, ruler + hard, brave, through Dick

Dickie has been given to 4,719 babies in the U.S. since 1916. 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 1947, with 192 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 94% boys, 6% girls all-time.

Babies named Dickie, 1993

1 in 754,000

Dickie over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Dickie over time

In 1993, Dickie went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19161993

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Dickie: meaning, origin, and history

King, ruler + hard, brave, through Dick

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dickie means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Dickie is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Dick and Richard.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Dickie is pronounced /ˈdɪki/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,459 boys were recorded with the name Dickie between 1916 and 1993. Its highest annual count was 192 in 1947; its best national rank was #483 in 1947.

In the United States, 260 girls were recorded with the name Dickie between 1921 and 1961. Its highest annual count was 19 in 1953; its best national rank was #2,238 in 1942.

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 Dickie?

Dickie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1993, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1993
1 in 754,000
5 of 3,768,729 births
Among boys only
1 in 392,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1993
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
522,458 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dickie 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 1993 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 522,458 children born in 1993 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dickie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dickies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dickie was born before 1947 — so the typical Dickie is around 78 today.

Median birth year
1947
About 78 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
33.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,875
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1940s — 33.7% of all recorded uses (1,504).

Is Dickie 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 1947 (192)
Years since peak
78
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#483
1947

Spellings of Dickie

Dickie is not the most common spelling — Jackie is, with 54.4% against Dickie's 3.1%.

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 Dickie is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Dickie was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in 12,500 boys, against 1 in 43,672 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arkansas1 in 12,500
  2. 2Oklahoma1 in 12,500
  3. 3New Mexico1 in 16,667
  4. 4Kentucky1 in 20,000
  5. 5Missouri1 in 20,000
  6. 6Texas1 in 20,000
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 25,000
  8. 8West Virginia1 in 25,000

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. Dickie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Dickie is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Dickie was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,116,447 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Dickie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dickie 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
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Best rank ever
#483
1947
Peak year
1947
192 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
1993
All-time count
4,459
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,238
1942
Peak year
1953
19 that year
First recorded
1921
Last recorded
1961
All-time count
260
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dickie

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

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Names with a curve like Dickie

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Dickie, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Dickie

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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