As a diminutive of Richard, Ricky means ‘brave ruler’. Richard consists of Old German ‘rih’ for ‘ruler, king’ and ‘hart’ for ‘hard, firm, brave, hardy’.
Ricky is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Ricky isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Ricky ranks 581. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 2 were named Ricky. In the entire USA, approximately 219,788 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Ricky. That is 0.07 % of all living Americans.
Who would have thought it? After many years of not appearing at all in the SmartGenius statistics, Ricky reached its highest rank ever in the year 1959 at #34. In other words: 13,290 newborn boys were named Ricky that year. Since then, it has been considered to be a universally popular name, chosen by a large number of happy parents every year. Although the times of its highest popularity are now many decades ago, Ricky is still going strong and has not been forgotten yet. We can only wait and see if there will be a new surprise in store and if Ricky will be able to top its all-time best ranking ever again.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Ricky was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Ricky ranked 759 in our SmartGenius statistics. In absolute figures, this means it was given to baby boys a total of 304 times. No one knows what names (or combinations of numbers and letters) will be popular 50 years from now, but given its consistent popularity, there is a good chance that Ricky will remain a universally popular name.
There are only 386 different male names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Ricky is one of them. However, Ricky is not equally widespread in all states, but people in Arkansas seem to particularly fancy this name – the 5,522 men called Ricky who live here are 0,317% of all male residents and push their name up to #63 in our SmartGenius statistics, easily placing it in the top 100 most common male names in Arkansas. If you look at all the states in the USA together, you can currently find as many as 219,788 people with the name Ricky. Across all regions and age groups, this lands Ricky on position 163 in our SmartGenius ranking of the top male names – of course, the current popularity as a baby name for newborns looks somewhat different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter R is quite common as an initial letter for boys’ names. To be precise, 5.2% of all boys' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D.
With five letters, the name Ricky is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 5.2% of all boys' names start with R, this initial letter occurs much more often than all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: of all the names that begin with an R, Robert is the most common.
If your name is Ricky and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Ricky, you can simply say:
Rocket
Igloo
Cat
Koala
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Ricky
Ricky
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
R
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C
K
Y
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
R
I
C
K
Y
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Ricky sounds like this:
