How rare is the name Vickey?

4,464 people in the United States have the first name Vickey, about 1 in 67,659. It ranks #4,262 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

VICKEY

#4,262

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,464
About
1 in 67,659
This common or more
83.8%
Who bears it

Of the 4,464 people named Vickey, 72% reported their origin as White, 19.4% as Black and 3.3% as Hispanic or Latino. 98% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Vickey peaked in 1957, when 402 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19161997
Peak year
1957
Births that year
402
In 1997
6 ▼99%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 5,947 babies have been given the name since 1916. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Vickey by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1950s, when it ranked #982. The largest share of babies named Vickey, 73.1%, were born during the baby boom (1946–1964).

1910s#11,6155
1920s#7,11357
1930s#6,44752
1940s#1,721686
1950s#9822,731
1960s#1,3121,813
1970s#3,189449
1980s#8,913120
1990s#22,33634
Greatest Generation 1901–270.8%
Silent Generation 1928–455.6%
Baby boom 1946–6473.1%
Generation X 1965–8018.2%
Millennials 1981–962.2%
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 Vickey is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Vickey has been most common in Tennessee (3.5×), Alabama (3.4×), and Arkansas (3.2×), and least common in New York (0.16×).

3,982 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.

Spelled almost the same

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

Also a last name

As a last name, Vickey ranks #121,361 of 156,621, with 150 people. See Vickey as a last name

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