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The name Rick is of English origin, and is a diminutive form of Richard. The table below indicates the number of times the name Rick has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Rick**
Use of the Name Rick for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
79,155	60,688	6,977	1,113	164	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Rick has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Rick first appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1940, which is the first year shown on the table. Rick last appeared in either or both of these name lists during 2000, the last year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Rick**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1940	856	55
1941	813	61
1942	641	99
1943	400	237
1944	286	430
1945	259	504
1946	207	826
1947	182	1,125
1948	173	1,278
1949	171	1,355
1950	168	1,490
1951	143	1,888
1952	119	2,583
1953	100	3,171
1954	102	3,365
1955	108	3,160
1956	100	3,650
1957	87	4,654
1958	76	5,457
1959	89	4,928
1960	100	4,220
1961	108	3,727
1962	110	3,410
1963	111	3,220
1964	121	2,852
1965	137	2,253
1966	162	1,745
1967	169	1,586
1968	182	1,432
1969	200	1,271
1970	212	1,177
1971	259	859
1972	280	683
1973	292	623
1974	335	516
1975	344	496
1976	356	459
1977	373	437
1978	388	400
1979	355	496
1980	391	440
1981	381	449
1982	364	489
1983	383	436
1984	419	386
1985	408	442
1986	420	418
1987	420	436
1988	465	385
1989	500	366
1990	510	376
1991	544	347
1992	575	312
1993	579	315
1994	637	267
1995	735	214
1996	723	215
1997	780	190
1998	876	166
1999	911	164
2000	929	164
Totals:		79,155		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Rick as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Rick appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 61 times during the last 125 years.

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