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Dicky

Boys' name

King, ruler + hard, brave, through Richard

Dicky has been given to 975 babies in the U.S. since 1925. 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 37 recorded.

Babies named Dicky, 1980

1 in 689,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dicky: meaning, origin, and history

King, ruler + hard, brave, through Richard

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dicky means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Dicky is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Richard.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Dicky is pronounced /ˈdɪki/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 975 boys were recorded with the name Dicky between 1925 and 1980. Its highest annual count was 37 in 1947; its best national rank was #1,193 in 1947.

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 Dicky?

Dicky had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1980, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1980
1 in 689,000
5 of 3,444,198 births
Among boys only
1 in 357,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1980
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
477,468 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dicky 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 1980 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 477,468 children born in 1980 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dicky. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dickys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dicky was born before 1950 — so the typical Dicky is around 75 today.

Median birth year
1950
About 75 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
30.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
32.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
493
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1950s — 30.3% of all recorded uses (295).

Is Dicky 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1947 (37)
Years since peak
78
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,193
1947

Spellings of Dicky

Dicky is not the most common spelling — Ricky is, with 40.2% against Dicky's 0.18%.

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 Dicky is used

Across 1910–2025, Dicky was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 187,084 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 100,000
  2. 2North Carolina1 in —
  3. 3Tennessee1 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. Dicky has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dicky around the world

Where Dicky ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    2003–2003
    #588
    in 2003

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Dicky 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
#1,193
1947
Peak year
1947
37 that year
First recorded
1925
Last recorded
1980
All-time count
975
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dicky

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

DickeyMickyBuckyLuckyJackyDicksonNickyVickyDickieChuckyBeckyMackyRockyDickDiceRickyFranckyKentucky

Sibling names for Dicky

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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