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Richrd vs Rickey

American parents have registered 62,391 Rickeys since 1880, against 400 Richrds. Rickey is still ahead, with 45 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Richrd against Rickey, 1880 to 2025 0 1k 2k 3k 4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Richrd Rickey

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Rickey has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1924 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1969, when Richrd had 21 and Rickey had 604.

Side by side

  Richrd Rickey
Total US births 40062,391
Most in one year 213,818
Babies in 2025 under 545
Estimated living today 33048,000
Median age today 5364
Peak year 19691958
Best rank 1,810th boys106th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked2,798th
First recorded 19481924
Girls / boys 0 / 400674 / 61,717

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Rickeys alive today are over 64; half the Richrds are over 53. That is 11 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Richrd and Rickey.