Rickey

Where Rickey comes from

Rickey hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1924
    First appearance
    #4,347 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1954
    Rickey Green born
    American basketball player
  3. 1958
    Rickey Henderson born
    American Hall of Fame baseball player
  4. 1958
    Peak, #106
    3,782 babies named Rickey — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1962
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #169.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Rickey Henderson · American Hall of Fame baseball player, 1958–2024
  • Rickey Green · American basketball player, born 1954
  • Rickey Thompson · American actor, born 1996
  • Rickey Paulding · American basketball player, born 1982
  • Rickey Brown · American basketball player, born 1958

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.