Dickie
Dickie is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 483rd, in 1947.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1947192 births
- Best rank
- #483in 1947
- Since 1916
- 4,719people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,459 boys have been named Dickie in the United States since 1916, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1947, with 192 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 192 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1947, and the 1940s alone account for 34%. It has spent 32 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 260 girls have also been given it, 5.5% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1947, its biggest year
Dickie was the 483rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1947 were James, Robert, John, William and Richard. See all of 1947.
Names that rose and fell with Dickie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Larriepeak 1943
- Jeroldpeak 1942
- Jerrepeak 1942
- Jerrypeak 1947
- Rondalpeak 1947
- Ronaldpeak 1947
- Gearldpeak 1941
- Jerepeak 1941
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.