girls:
4.4k births since 1938
#2583 (55th percentile)
boys:
2.3k births since 1942
#2630 (43rd percentile)
overall:
6.7k births since 1938
#3289 (57th percentile)
The name Ricki is the #3,289 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,690 recorded births since 1938. This represents the 57.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 57.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,583 (54.8% percentile) for all time with 4,387 births since 1938. For boys, it ranks #2,630 (42.6% percentile) for all time with 2,303 births since 1942.
Ricki first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1938 (1938 for girls and 1942 for boys).
The name Ricki has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for girls (65.6% of all recorded births). In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Ricki were girls.
For girls, Ricki reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 22.6% percentile (ranked #654) with 101 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 102 births per million (ranked 22.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Ricki ranks #931 for girls (1.7% percentile) with 12 births per million, which is 11.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Ricki reached its peak popularity in 1953, achieving the 22.8% percentile (ranked #468) with 73 births per million. The name was most common in 1953, with 73 births per million (ranked 22.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ricki".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Ricki. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Ricki is pronounced as RIH-kee, which has 2 syllables.
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