Dick

Where Dick comes from

Rhyming nickname for Rick, pet form of Richard.
— Wiktionary's entry for Dick
  • 1 syllable
Dick through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #341 among boys, with 25 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1934
    Peak, #138
    1,131 babies named Dick, the most in any year.
  3. 1947
    Dick Advocaat born
    Dutch association football player and manager
  4. 1948
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #286.
  5. 1957
    Dick Schoof born
    civil servant and former Prime Minister of the Netherlands, 2024-2026
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the male given name Richard, also used as a formal given name.
Namesakes
  • Dick Schoof · civil servant and former Prime Minister of the Netherlands, 2024-2026, born 1957
  • Dick Advocaat · Dutch association football player and manager, born 1947
  • Dick Fosbury · American athletics competitor, high jumper, 1947–2023
  • Dick Durbin · United States Senator from Illinois, born 1944
  • Dick Powell · American actor, 1904–1963

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.