Dicy

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Dicy has been given to 328 babies in the U.S. since 1881. 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 1920, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Dicy, 1971

1 in 686,000

Dicy over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dicy: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dicy means

Dicy is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Dicy is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 328 girls were recorded with the name Dicy between 1881 and 1971. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1920; its best national rank was #758 in 1881.

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 Dicy?

Dicy had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1971, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1971: 1 in 686,000; 5 of 3,432,187 births
Among girls only: 1 in 333,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1971: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 475,803 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Dicy sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1971 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 475,803 children born in 1971 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dicy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dicys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dicy was born before 1917 — so the typical Dicy is around 108 today.

Median birth year: 1917; About 108 years old
Biggest decade: 1910s; 21.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 7.6%; Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950: 11; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1910s — 21.3% of all recorded uses (70).

Is Dicy 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 1920 (12)
Years since peak: 105; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 33.8% average annual change
Best rank ever: #758; 1881

Spellings of Dicy

Dicy is not the most common spelling — Lucy is, with 26.8% against Dicy's 0.04%.

Lucy26.8%236,969
Lily21.4%189,644
Daisy17.9%158,723
Ivy9.3%82,713
Vicky6.1%53,543
Macy3.7%32,749
Dina3.6%32,021
Darcy2.6%23,418

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.

Dicy by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #758; 1881
Peak year: 1920; 12 that year
First recorded: 1881
Last recorded: 1971
All-time count: 328
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Dicy

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

Dickie Dick Dicie Vicy Deicy Greicy Dicey Maicy Nicy Icy Greeicy Daicy Dicksie Dicki Spicy Joicy Keicy Dichelle Kaicy Steicy Levicy Yuneicy

Sibling names for Dicy

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

Norine Vina Mozelle Marcelle Oleta Syble Adella Mittie

For a brother

Junius Rupert Orin Otha Hilton Casimir Edd Noble

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