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How popular is “Ricky” in the USA?

Number of people named “Ricky” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Ricky” by birth year

This chart shows how “Ricky” 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
1925 6 0.000002571 6 -100%
1926 11 0.000004791 11 -100%
1927 11 0.000004743 5 6 -9%
1928 15 0.000006634 5 10 -33%
1929 8 0.000003649 8 -100%
1930 11 0.000004948 11 -100%
1931 16 0.000007603 6 10 -25%
1932 8 0.000003789 8 -100%
1933 18 0.000009002 7 11 -22%
1934 20 0.00000963 20 -100%
1935 19 0.000009091 19 -100%
1936 33 0.000015884 5 28 -70%
1937 19 0.000008917 19 -100%
1938 35 0.000015819 5 30 -71%
1939 29 0.000013161 29 -100%
1940 48 0.000020845 48 -100%
1941 92 0.00003776 5 87 -89%
1942 117 0.000042829 7 110 -88%
1943 188 0.000066606 6 182 -94%
1944 405 0.000150553 12 393 -94%
1945 544 0.000205058 21 523 -92%
1946 786 0.000245986 24 762 -94%
1947 1345 0.00037337 45 1300 -93%
1948 1630 0.000472119 30 1600 -96%
1949 1823 0.000523133 32 1791 -96%
1950 2139 0.000610557 32 2107 -97%
1951 3103 0.000842351 30 3073 -98%
1952 4690 0.001234859 35 4655 -99%
1953 6939 0.001800633 51 6888 -99%
1954 8221 0.002065211 58 8163 -99%
1955 8361 0.002082399 34 8327 -99%
1956 8831 0.002141868 50 8781 -99%
1957 10628 0.002529186 53 10575 -99%
1958 13422 0.00324681 49 13373 -99%
1959 13309 0.003200824 82 13227 -99%
1960 11061 0.002662853 66 10995 -99%
1961 10086 0.002434879 59 10027 -99%
1962 8750 0.002168325 58 8692 -99%
1963 8173 0.002064827 60 8113 -99%
1964 6805 0.001750435 49 6756 -99%
1965 5686 0.001568357 28 5658 -99%
1966 4718 0.001357442 37 4681 -98%
1967 4060 0.001195913 42 4018 -98%
1968 4064 0.001202932 27 4037 -99%
1969 3445 0.000991275 30 3415 -98%
1970 3121 0.000865379 30 3091 -98%
1971 2676 0.00077964 16 2660 -99%
1972 2258 0.000718423 22 2236 -98%
1973 1962 0.000650339 23 1939 -98%
1974 2071 0.00068125 38 2033 -96%
1975 1948 0.000645163 31 1917 -97%
1976 2018 0.000665063 25 1993 -98%
1977 1972 0.00062081 14 1958 -99%
1978 2037 0.000641803 19 2018 -98%
1979 2245 0.000674782 20 2225 -98%
1980 2257 0.000655246 25 2232 -98%
1981 2247 0.000649539 25 2222 -98%
1982 2146 0.000611751 27 2119 -97%
1983 2112 0.000609816 31 2081 -97%
1984 2005 0.000574704 24 1981 -98%
1985 1960 0.000549157 27 1933 -97%
1986 1975 0.000555231 18 1957 -98%
1987 1875 0.000520022 21 1854 -98%
1988 1904 0.000515285 22 1882 -98%
1989 1917 0.000498641 20 1897 -98%
1990 1773 0.000448579 14 1759 -98%
1991 1631 0.000418713 14 1617 -98%
1992 1633 0.000425119 12 1621 -99%
1993 1452 0.000385117 10 1442 -99%
1994 1430 0.000384651 18 1412 -97%
1995 1243 0.000339418 16 1227 -97%
1996 1213 0.000332584 16 1197 -97%
1997 1081 0.000298145 5 1076 -99%
1998 982 0.000266978 12 970 -98%
1999 1109 0.000300227 11 1098 -98%
2000 1035 0.000273816 11 1024 -98%
2001 865 0.000231074 7 858 -98%
2002 811 0.000216944 9 802 -98%
2003 799 0.000210135 799 -100%
2004 804 0.00021042 18 786 -96%
2005 769 0.000200008 769 -100%
2006 767 0.000193873 7 760 -98%
2007 832 0.000208121 9 823 -98%
2008 858 0.000218284 7 851 -98%
2009 710 0.000185855 10 700 -97%
2010 602 0.00016289 7 595 -98%
2011 596 0.00016294 6 590 -98%
2012 592 0.000161865 592 -100%
2013 551 0.000151138 551 -100%
2014 540 0.000145695 540 -100%
2015 485 0.000131049 8 477 -97%
2016 456 0.000124295 8 448 -96%
2017 378 0.000105699 12 366 -94%
2018 378 0.000107512 10 368 -95%
2019 411 0.000118412 9 402 -96%
2020 377 0.000112855 11 366 -94%
2021 323 0.000095338 323 -100%
2022 304 0.000089857 12 292 -92%
2023 277 0.000083656 7 270 -95%
2024 310 0.000093135 10 300 -94%

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