How rare is the name Dick?

6,350 people in the United States have the first name Dick, about 1 in 47,564. It ranks #3,340 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

DICK

#3,340

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
6,350
About
1 in 47,564
This common or more
82.2%
Who bears it

Of the 6,350 people named Dick, 81% reported their origin as White, 8.4% as Asian or Pacific Islander and 5% as Hispanic or Latino. 98.9% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Dick peaked in 1934, when 1,131 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802005
Peak year
1934
Births that year
1,131
In 2005
5 ▼100%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 29,321 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Dick by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1930s, when it ranked #334. The largest share of babies named Dick, 57.8%, were born between 1928 and 1945, the Silent Generation's birth years.

1880s#752246
1890s#951249
1900s#983329
1910s#8461,528
1920s#5205,518
1930s#33410,180
1940s#4777,562
1950s#1,1202,140
1960s#1,7121,110
1970s#4,227288
1980s#8,862121
1990s#22,59933
2000s#35,04317
Before 19011.8%
Greatest Generation 1901–2719.3%
Silent Generation 1928–4557.8%
Baby boom 1946–6418.3%
Generation X 1965–802.3%
Millennials 1981–960.5%
Generation Z 1997–120.1%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Dick is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Dick has been most common in Iowa (5.6×), Nebraska (5.5×), and Montana (5.3×), and least common in Massachusetts (0.06×).

25,446 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Dick

1 other first name also has 6,350 people.

#3,340 Veronika · 6,350

Either side of Dick

#3,338 Ashtyn · 6,351#3,338 Tristian · 6,351#3,340 Veronika · 6,350#3,342 Jacque · 6,347

Spelled almost the same

2 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Dick, most common first.

#20,072 Dicky · 518#51,501 Dicy · 113

Also a last name

As a last name, Dick ranks #1,857 of 156,621, with 18,994 people. See Dick as a last name

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