Rickey

Where Rickey comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Rickey.

  • Vowel-ended
Rickey through the years
  1. 1924
    First appearance
    #4,347 among boys with 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, the most in any year.
  5. 1962
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #169.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

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.