girls:
1.8k births since 1896
#3959 (31st percentile)
boys:
16.4k births since 1932
#907 (80th percentile)
overall:
18.2k births since 1896
#1906 (75th percentile)
The name Rickie is the #1,906 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 18,185 recorded births since 1896. This represents the 75.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 75.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #907 (80.2% percentile) for all time with 16,356 births since 1932. For girls, it ranks #3,959 (30.7% percentile) for all time with 1,829 births since 1896.
Rickie first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1896 (1896 for girls and 1932 for boys). Birth data for Rickie is available in 93 out of the 128 years between 1896 and 2023 (90 years for boys and 87 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 Rickie has been given predominantly to boys, with 89.9% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 65.5% of babies named Rickie were boys. Interestingly, until around 1932, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 1896 to 1931), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (90.0% boys from 1932 to 2023).
For boys, Rickie reached its peak popularity in 1954, achieving the 65.5% percentile (ranked #213) with 485 births per million. The name was most common in 1954, with 485 births per million (ranked 65.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Rickie ranks #897 for boys (1.5% percentile) with 10 births per million, which is 2.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Rickie reached its peak popularity in 1952, achieving the 9.9% percentile (ranked #622) with 38 births per million. The name was most common in 1947, with 39 births per million (ranked 9.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Rickie ranks #942 for girls (0.5% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 14.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Rickie".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Rickie is pronounced as RIH-kee, which has 2 syllables.
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