Dick
29,273 US births on record
Dick in the United States
Between 1987 and 2005 the name has been falling — down 61% as a share of boys' births.
SOURCE·US Social Security Administration, national baby-name data·Public domain. SSA lists a name only if it was given to at least 5 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Dick in New Zealand
Dick never reached 10 births in a single year in New Zealand, so it does not appear in the DIA file. That is a reporting floor, not a zero — the name may still have been registered here, just never ten times in one year.
SOURCE·NZ Department of Internal Affairs, births by first name·CC BY 4.0. DIA lists a name only if it was given to at least 10 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Decade by decade in the US
| Year | Rank | Births |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | #341 | 25 |
| 1890 | #312 | 31 |
| 1900 | #312 | 45 |
| 1910 | #353 | 52 |
| 1920 | #320 | 329 |
| 1930 | #161 | 940 |
| 1940 | #171 | 911 |
| 1950 | #411 | 269 |
| 1960 | #571 | 186 |
| 1970 | #1,142 | 52 |
| 1980 | #2,444 | 20 |
| 1990 | #4,993 | 10 |
| 2000 | #9,112 | 6 |
| 2010 | below floor | — |
| 2020 | below floor | — |
Where in the United States
The states that registered Dick most often since 1880. These are lifetime totals, so they track state population as much as local taste — a name common in Wyoming will never out-count California.
| State | Births |
|---|---|
| California | 3,065 |
| Ohio | 2,047 |
| Iowa | 1,920 |
| Illinois | 1,683 |
| Washington | 1,624 |
| Michigan | 1,610 |
| Texas | 1,174 |
| Indiana | 1,130 |
| Nebraska | 1,039 |
| Minnesota | 877 |
How these figures are worked out
- Counts come straight from the registrars: the US Social Security Administration (1880–2025) and the New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs (1900–2025). Nothing is scraped from another names site.
- Ranks are computed against every name in that year's file, not just the ones this site publishes pages for — otherwise a rank would flatter every name we happen to list.
- The curve is drawn on births per 100,000 of that sex, not raw counts. Raw counts across eras are misleading: far more births were registered in 1957 than in 1890, so a flat count is a falling share.
- Each country hides small numbers — the US below 5 births a year, New Zealand below 10. A gap in a line is "below the floor", never "nobody".
SOURCE·US SSA (1880–2025) + NZ DIA (1900–2025) birth registrations·ranks and shares computed from the source files, see method·REVIEWED JUL 2026