# Rickey (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/rickey/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 62,391 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 61,717 / 674 (1% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 6, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 8 | 6,716 |
| 1975 | 9 | 6,327 |
| 1976 | 8 | 7,107 |
| 1977 | 9 | 6,737 |
| 1978 | 9 | 6,796 |
| 1979 | 7 | 8,742 |
| 1980 | 8 | 7,963 |
| 1981 | 6 | 10,058 |
| 1982 | 6 | 10,158 |
| 1983 | 6 | 9,924 |
| 1984 | 7 | 8,903 |
| 1985 | 6 | 10,323 |
| 1986 | 8 | 8,306 |
| 1987 | 6 | 10,931 |
| 1990 | 6 | 12,541 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 109 | 1,491 |
| 2012 | 97 | 1,613 |
| 2013 | 105 | 1,534 |
| 2014 | 107 | 1,511 |
| 2015 | 89 | 1,736 |
| 2016 | 78 | 1,899 |
| 2017 | 86 | 1,789 |
| 2018 | 66 | 2,138 |
| 2019 | 66 | 2,167 |
| 2020 | 66 | 2,132 |
| 2021 | 69 | 2,104 |
| 2022 | 47 | 2,787 |
| 2023 | 43 | 2,936 |
| 2024 | 47 | 2,786 |
| 2025 | 45 | 2,827 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 3 | 2,859 |
| 2008 | 3 | 4,432 |

## People named Rickey

- Rickey Henderson, American Hall of Fame baseball player (1958–2024)
- Rickey Green, American basketball player (born 1954)
- Rickey Thompson, American actor
- Rickey Brown, American basketball player (born 1958)
- Rickey Paulding, American basketball player (born 1982)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.