Ricki
#4,758 for girls in 2025, 28 births · Last seen for boys in 2022 at #10,863
Given to girls 65.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1951 · 125 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,442since 1938
Ricki over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,758 | 28 | — | |
| 2024 | #4,893 | 27 | — | |
| 2023 | #5,752 | 21 | — | |
| 2022 | #5,172 | 25 | #10,863 | 6 |
| 2021 | #4,719 | 28 | #12,146 | 5 |
| 2020 | #4,169 | 33 | — | |
| 2019 | #4,072 | 35 | #10,803 | 6 |
| 2018 | #4,237 | 33 | — | |
| 2017 | #4,304 | 33 | — | |
| 2016 | #5,284 | 25 | — | |
| 2015 | #3,915 | 38 | — | |
| 2014 | #5,163 | 26 | #12,108 | 5 |
| 2013 | #4,887 | 28 | — | |
| 2012 | #5,557 | 24 | — | |
| 2011 | #5,063 | 27 | #7,502 | 10 |
| 2010 | #5,414 | 25 | #9,693 | 7 |
| 2009 | #6,091 | 22 | #8,985 | 8 |
| 2008 | #5,013 | 29 | #9,019 | 8 |
| 2007 | #4,944 | 29 | #7,094 | 11 |
| 2006 | #4,953 | 28 | #9,585 | 7 |
| 2005 | #3,942 | 36 | #9,115 | 7 |
| 2004 | #3,748 | 38 | — | |
| 2003 | #3,412 | 42 | #8,643 | 7 |
| 2002 | #3,014 | 48 | #5,131 | 14 |
| 2001 | #2,331 | 68 | #5,667 | 12 |
| 2000 | #2,457 | 62 | #4,785 | 15 |
| 1999 | #1,596 | 105 | #3,986 | 18 |
| 1998 | #1,721 | 92 | #3,486 | 21 |
| 1997 | #1,327 | 130 | #3,738 | 18 |
| 1996 | #1,225 | 143 | #4,396 | 14 |
| 1995 | #964 | 196 | #2,500 | 30 |
| 1994 | #941 | 197 | #3,109 | 22 |
| 1993 | #2,127 | 63 | #3,141 | 21 |
| 1992 | #2,650 | 46 | #3,105 | 21 |
| 1991 | #2,620 | 46 | #3,813 | 15 |
| 1990 | #2,174 | 59 | #4,167 | 13 |
| 1989 | #2,338 | 50 | #2,902 | 21 |
| 1988 | #2,447 | 44 | #2,255 | 27 |
| 1987 | #2,199 | 49 | #2,725 | 19 |
| 1986 | #2,025 | 53 | #2,429 | 22 |
| 1985 | #2,137 | 49 | #3,401 | 13 |
| 1984 | #1,866 | 57 | #2,613 | 18 |
| 1983 | #2,097 | 47 | #3,630 | 11 |
| 1982 | #1,786 | 61 | #3,482 | 12 |
| 1981 | #1,754 | 64 | #2,898 | 15 |
| 1980 | #2,154 | 47 | #2,536 | 19 |
| 1979 | #1,977 | 52 | #2,236 | 22 |
| 1978 | #2,191 | 42 | #2,134 | 22 |
| 1977 | #2,257 | 40 | #2,063 | 23 |
| 1976 | #2,255 | 37 | #2,601 | 16 |
| 1975 | #1,689 | 56 | #2,001 | 23 |
| 1974 | #1,733 | 52 | #2,050 | 21 |
| 1973 | #1,939 | 42 | #2,124 | 19 |
| 1972 | #2,022 | 39 | #2,534 | 14 |
| 1971 | #1,709 | 53 | #2,279 | 17 |
| 1970 | #1,877 | 46 | #1,743 | 25 |
| 1969 | #1,897 | 43 | #1,810 | 21 |
| 1968 | #1,728 | 46 | #1,393 | 31 |
| 1967 | #1,751 | 43 | #1,476 | 27 |
| 1966 | #1,982 | 34 | #1,401 | 30 |
| 1965 | #2,031 | 33 | #1,318 | 34 |
| 1964 | #1,781 | 43 | #1,288 | 37 |
| 1963 | #1,738 | 44 | #1,238 | 39 |
| 1962 | #1,917 | 36 | #1,108 | 48 |
| 1961 | #1,872 | 38 | #990 | 61 |
| 1960 | #1,855 | 37 | #911 | 69 |
| 1959 | #1,516 | 51 | #843 | 80 |
| 1958 | #1,733 | 39 | #736 | 101 |
| 1957 | #1,531 | 49 | #692 | 122 |
| 1956 | #1,351 | 59 | #687 | 118 |
| 1955 | #1,347 | 56 | #663 | 121 |
| 1954 | #1,180 | 72 | #624 | 140 |
| 1953 | #1,009 | 91 | #593 | 147 |
| 1952 | #887 | 108 | #733 | 92 |
| 1951 | #794 | 125 | #785 | 80 |
| 1950 | #1,090 | 71 | #1,139 | 39 |
| 1949 | #1,032 | 75 | #1,227 | 34 |
| 1948 | #1,057 | 69 | #1,091 | 42 |
| 1947 | #958 | 86 | #1,316 | 31 |
| 1946 | #1,290 | 45 | #1,440 | 24 |
| 1945 | #1,232 | 42 | #1,697 | 16 |
| 1944 | #1,401 | 33 | #2,633 | 8 |
| 1943 | #1,834 | 22 | #3,231 | 6 |
| 1942 | #3,444 | 8 | #3,560 | 5 |
| 1941 | #3,030 | 9 | — | |
| 1940 | #3,503 | 7 | — | |
| 1939 | #3,145 | 8 | — | |
| 1938 | #4,342 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Ricki! It came in at #4,342, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1938, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Ricki is popular in 1962
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Illinois#1,059 · 1 in 20,575
- California#1,308 · 1 in 24,783
Best ever in a state: #293 in Utah, 1951.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Illinois | #1,059 | 5 | 1 in 20,575 |
| California | #1,308 | 7 | 1 in 24,783 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Ricki
- 135 spots since 2024 (#4,893 → #4,758)
- 589 spots since 2020 (#4,169 → #4,758)
- 843 spots since 2015 (#3,915 → #4,758)
- Biggest jump: 1,186 spots in 1994 (#2,127 → #941)
- Biggest drop: 261 spots in 1996 (#964 → #1,225)
- Debuted 1938
- Peaked 1951 at #794 (125 births)
- Births halved by 1955, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 5 yrs · run 1951–1952
- Highest: 1 in 8,972 girls born in 1995 were named Ricki (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 57,402 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #794 in 1951, was only 1 in 14,407 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 24.2% of all girls named Ricki (1,077) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1965, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 13 | #3,145 (1939) | #3,744 |
| 1940s | 396 | #958 (1947) | #1,878 |
| 1950s | 721 | #794 (1951) | #1,244 |
| 1960s | 397 | #1,728 (1968) | #1,855 |
| 1970s | 459 | #1,689 (1975) | #1,965 |
| 1980s | 521 | #1,754 (1981) | #2,080 |
| 1990s | 1,077 | #941 (1994) | #1,735 |
| 2000s | 402 | #2,331 (2001) | #3,991 |
| 2010s | 294 | #3,915 (2015) | #4,790 |
| 2020s | 162 | #4,169 (2020) | #4,911 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Ricki in 1962
Top girls' names in 1962
Top boys' names in 1962
More about 1962
girls
1,966,603 girls got a published name in 1962; 1 in 54,628 of them was named Ricki, which outranked 74.7% of the 7,584 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,889Tamy37
- #1,889Torri37
- #1,889Wendolyn37
- #1,917Ricki36
- #1,917Alejandra36
- #1,917Augusta36
- #1,917Cecily36
- #1,947Brenna35
- #1,947Chantal35
- #1,947Charise35
Tied with 29 names at #1,917; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,068,772 boys got a published name in 1962; 1 in 43,099 of them was named Ricki, which outranked 76.1% of the 4,631 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 28.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,091Olen49
- #1,091Regis49
- #1,091Rigoberto49
- #1,108Ricki48
- #1,108Allison48
- #1,108Dario48
- #1,108Davy48
- #1,121Andreas47
- #1,121Arron47
- #1,121Brion47
Tied with 12 names at #1,108; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.