Recorded 1938–2025 · United States
Ricki was most popular in 1953, when 238 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,020 that year. In 2025 it ranked #8,252, with 28 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 6,745 people named Ricki.
Ricki first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1938, which makes it about 87 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 88 of the 88 years since.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 6,745 American births named Ricki between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 5,840 are estimated to be alive today.
28 American babies were named Ricki in 2025, ranking #8,252 that year.
Ricki is holding steady. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 28 births a year, against 32 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of -11% over the decade.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Across the whole record Ricki is a unisex name — 65.9% of the 6,745 Americans given it were girls and 34.1% were boys. It changed hands: since 1966 it has gone mainly to girls, having gone mainly to boys before that. In births since 2016 it is 94% girls and 6% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
Roughly 5,840 Americans named Ricki are alive today — 87% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 47 years old, and half are between 30 and 68. That is a wide band, the mark of a name in steady use across generations rather than a passing fashion.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org