girls:
135 births since 1947
#5581 (2nd percentile)
boys:
81.7k births since 1919
#354 (92nd percentile)
overall:
81.9k births since 1919
#787 (90th percentile)
The name Rick is the #787 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 81,882 recorded births since 1919. This represents the 89.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 89.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #354 (92.3% percentile) for all time with 81,747 births since 1919. For girls, it ranks #5,581 (2.3% percentile) for all time with 135 births since 1947.
Rick first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1919 (1919 for boys and 1947 for girls). Birth data for Rick is available in 104 out of the 105 years between 1919 and 2023 (104 years for boys and 19 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 Rick has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Rick reached its peak popularity in 1958, achieving the 88.7% percentile (ranked #76) with 2,534 births per million. The name was most common in 1958, with 2,534 births per million (ranked 88.7% percentile). Despite a low point around 1981, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for boys. Currently, Rick ranks #874 for boys (4.1% percentile) with 23 births per million, which is 0.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Rick reached its peak popularity in 1961, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #780) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1961, with 6 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1982.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Rick".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Rick is pronounced as rihk, which has 1 syllables.
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