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How popular is “Rickey” in the USA?

Number of people named “Rickey” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Rickey” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Rickey” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Rickey” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Rickey” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Rickey” by birth year

This chart shows how “Rickey” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1924 5 0.000002099 5 -100%
1925 6 0.000002571 6 -100%
1928 12 0.000005308 5 7 -17%
1929 6 0.000002737 6 -100%
1930 9 0.000004048 9 -100%
1931 6 0.000002851 6 -100%
1932 5 0.000002368 5 -100%
1933 19 0.000009503 19 -100%
1934 16 0.000007704 16 -100%
1935 10 0.000004785 10 -100%
1936 22 0.000010589 22 -100%
1937 12 0.000005632 12 -100%
1938 19 0.000008587 19 -100%
1939 15 0.000006808 15 -100%
1940 20 0.000008686 20 -100%
1941 41 0.000016828 41 -100%
1942 77 0.000028186 11 66 -71%
1943 111 0.000039326 7 104 -87%
1944 225 0.000083641 18 207 -84%
1945 286 0.000107806 24 262 -83%
1946 499 0.000156167 16 483 -94%
1947 843 0.000234016 34 809 -92%
1948 1049 0.000303836 29 1020 -94%
1949 1106 0.000317381 19 1087 -97%
1950 1320 0.000376781 19 1301 -97%
1951 1558 0.00042294 16 1542 -98%
1952 2073 0.000545813 21 2052 -98%
1953 2857 0.000741376 17 2840 -99%
1954 3163 0.000794582 33 3130 -98%
1955 3085 0.000768353 20 3065 -99%
1956 3284 0.0007965 21 3263 -99%
1957 3537 0.000841713 15 3522 -99%
1958 3818 0.000923582 36 3782 -98%
1959 3484 0.000837904 25 3459 -99%
1960 2591 0.000623764 19 2572 -99%
1961 2281 0.00055066 27 2254 -98%
1962 1908 0.000472819 22 1886 -98%
1963 1694 0.000427972 14 1680 -98%
1964 1374 0.000353431 18 1356 -97%
1965 1135 0.000313065 17 1118 -97%
1966 955 0.000274768 10 945 -98%
1967 775 0.000228284 9 766 -98%
1968 777 0.00022999 9 768 -98%
1969 604 0.000173797 10 594 -97%
1970 569 0.00015777 8 561 -97%
1971 531 0.000154704 6 525 -98%
1972 509 0.000161947 5 504 -98%
1973 501 0.000166065 5 496 -98%
1974 485 0.00015954 8 477 -97%
1975 543 0.000179837 9 534 -97%
1976 559 0.000184227 8 551 -97%
1977 562 0.000176925 9 553 -97%
1978 509 0.000160372 9 500 -96%
1979 533 0.000160204 7 526 -97%
1980 584 0.000169545 8 576 -97%
1981 586 0.000169395 6 580 -98%
1982 562 0.000160207 6 556 -98%
1983 507 0.000146391 6 501 -98%
1984 517 0.00014819 7 510 -97%
1985 506 0.000141772 6 500 -98%
1986 442 0.000124259 8 434 -96%
1987 412 0.000114266 6 406 -97%
1988 429 0.000116101 429 -100%
1989 424 0.000110289 424 -100%
1990 388 0.000098166 6 382 -97%
1991 363 0.00009319 363 -100%
1992 324 0.000084347 324 -100%
1993 311 0.000082487 311 -100%
1994 252 0.000067785 252 -100%
1995 251 0.000068539 251 -100%
1996 211 0.000057853 211 -100%
1997 224 0.00006178 224 -100%
1998 160 0.000043499 160 -100%
1999 188 0.000050895 188 -100%
2000 176 0.000046562 176 -100%
2001 167 0.000044612 167 -100%
2002 172 0.00004601 172 -100%
2003 141 0.000037083 141 -100%
2004 143 0.000037426 143 -100%
2005 149 0.000038753 149 -100%
2006 165 0.000041707 165 -100%
2007 148 0.000037021 148 -100%
2008 130 0.000033073 130 -100%
2009 123 0.000032197 123 -100%
2010 119 0.000032199 119 -100%
2011 109 0.000029799 109 -100%
2012 97 0.000026522 97 -100%
2013 105 0.000028801 105 -100%
2014 107 0.000028869 107 -100%
2015 89 0.000024048 89 -100%
2016 78 0.000021261 78 -100%
2017 86 0.000024048 86 -100%
2018 66 0.000018772 66 -100%
2019 65 0.000018727 65 -100%
2020 66 0.000019757 66 -100%
2021 69 0.000020366 69 -100%
2022 47 0.000013892 47 -100%
2023 43 0.000012986 43 -100%
2024 46 0.00001382 46 -100%

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