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How popular is “Ricki” in the USA?

Number of people named “Ricki” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Ricki” 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 “Ricki” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Ricki” by birth year

This chart shows how “Ricki” 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
1938 5 0.00000226 5 100%
1939 8 0.000003631 8 100%
1940 7 0.00000304 7 100%
1941 9 0.000003694 9 100%
1942 13 0.000004759 8 5 23%
1943 28 0.00000992 22 6 57%
1944 41 0.000015241 33 8 61%
1945 58 0.000021863 42 16 45%
1946 69 0.000021594 45 24 30%
1947 117 0.000032479 86 31 47%
1948 111 0.00003215 69 42 24%
1949 109 0.000031279 75 34 38%
1950 110 0.000031398 71 39 29%
1951 205 0.00005565 125 80 22%
1952 200 0.000052659 108 92 8%
1953 238 0.00006176 91 147 -24%
1954 212 0.000053257 72 140 -32%
1955 177 0.000044084 56 121 -37%
1956 177 0.00004293 59 118 -33%
1957 171 0.000040694 49 122 -43%
1958 140 0.000033866 39 101 -44%
1959 131 0.000031506 51 80 -22%
1960 106 0.000025519 37 69 -30%
1961 99 0.0000239 38 61 -23%
1962 84 0.000020816 36 48 -14%
1963 83 0.000020969 44 39 6%
1964 80 0.000020578 43 37 8%
1965 67 0.00001848 33 34 -1%
1966 64 0.000018414 34 30 6%
1967 70 0.000020619 43 27 23%
1968 77 0.000022792 46 31 19%
1969 64 0.000018416 43 21 34%
1970 71 0.000019687 46 25 30%
1971 70 0.000020394 53 17 51%
1972 53 0.000016863 39 14 47%
1973 61 0.00002022 42 19 38%
1974 73 0.000024013 52 21 42%
1975 79 0.000026164 56 23 42%
1976 53 0.000017467 37 16 40%
1977 63 0.000019833 40 23 27%
1978 64 0.000020165 42 22 31%
1979 74 0.000022242 52 22 41%
1980 66 0.000019161 47 19 42%
1981 79 0.000022836 64 15 62%
1982 73 0.00002081 61 12 67%
1983 58 0.000016747 47 11 62%
1984 75 0.000021498 57 18 52%
1985 62 0.000017371 49 13 58%
1986 75 0.000021085 53 22 41%
1987 68 0.000018859 49 19 44%
1988 71 0.000019215 44 27 24%
1989 71 0.000018468 50 21 41%
1990 72 0.000018216 59 13 64%
1991 61 0.00001566 46 15 51%
1992 67 0.000017442 46 21 37%
1993 84 0.00002228 63 21 50%
1994 219 0.000058908 197 22 80%
1995 226 0.000061712 196 30 73%
1996 157 0.000043047 143 14 82%
1997 148 0.000040819 130 18 76%
1998 113 0.000030721 92 21 63%
1999 123 0.000033298 105 18 71%
2000 77 0.000020371 62 15 61%
2001 80 0.000021371 68 12 70%
2002 62 0.000016585 48 14 55%
2003 49 0.000012887 42 7 71%
2004 38 0.000009945 38 100%
2005 43 0.000011184 36 7 67%
2006 35 0.000008847 28 7 60%
2007 40 0.000010006 29 11 45%
2008 37 0.000009413 29 8 57%
2009 30 0.000007853 22 8 47%
2010 32 0.000008659 25 7 56%
2011 37 0.000010115 27 10 46%
2012 24 0.000006562 24 100%
2013 28 0.00000768 28 100%
2014 31 0.000008364 26 5 68%
2015 38 0.000010268 38 100%
2016 25 0.000006814 25 100%
2017 33 0.000009228 33 100%
2018 33 0.000009386 33 100%
2019 41 0.000011812 35 6 71%
2020 33 0.000009879 33 100%
2021 33 0.00000974 28 5 70%
2022 31 0.000009163 25 6 61%
2023 21 0.000006342 21 100%
2024 27 0.000008112 27 100%

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