Dickie

Where Dickie comes from

From Dick + -ie.
— Wiktionary's entry for Dickie
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1916
    First appearance
    #3,897 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1922
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1947
    Peak, #483
    192 babies named Dickie — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1958
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #907.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the male given name Dick, a short form of the male given name Richard.
Namesakes

No widely known Dickie turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

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.