Rickie

Where Rickie comes from

The dictionaries list Rickie as a given name — a diminutive of the male given name Richard — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1932
    First appearance
    #3,776 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1954
    Rickie Lee Jones born
    American singer
  3. 1954
    Peak, #218
    1,003 babies named Rickie — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1961
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #371.
  5. 1982
    Rickie Lambert born
    English footballer
  6. 2025
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the male given name Richard.
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Rickie Lambert · English footballer, born 1982
  • Rickie Lee Jones · American singer, born 1954
  • Rickie Winslow · Turkish-American basketball player, born 1964
  • Rickie Weeks · American baseball player, born 1982

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.