girls:
48 births since 1912
#5668 (1st percentile)
boys:
29.3k births since 1880
#676 (85th percentile)
overall:
29.3k births since 1880
#1491 (81st percentile)
The name Dick is the #1,491 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 29,321 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 80.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 80.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #676 (85.3% percentile) for all time with 29,273 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,668 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 48 births since 1912.
Dick has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1912 for girls). Birth data for Dick is available in 117 out of the 126 years between 1880 and 2005 (117 years for boys and 8 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Dick has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Dick reached its peak popularity in 1934, achieving the 74.0% percentile (ranked #138) with 1,065 births per million. The name was most common in 1934, with 1,065 births per million (ranked 74.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2005.
For girls, Dick reached its peak popularity in 1925, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #611) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1912, with 9 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1933.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dick".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Dick. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.0% confident that Dick is pronounced as dihk, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is deek, at 10.0% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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