Ricky
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Pet form of Richard, also used independently as a girl’s name
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɹɪki/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ricky is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 703(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 708
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 1.1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #754 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 569 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 703 (inferred from the name graph)
≈910,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Hong Kong, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Riki in ID Indonesia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Pet form of Richard, also used independently as a girl’s name. Variants: Rickie; Ricki, Rikki (9).
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ricky counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈910,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Ricky | 62 |
| ID Indonesia | #222 | ≈240,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | listed | Riki | 176 |
| PH Philippines | #126 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 708 | — | Ricky | 139 |
| US United States | #330 | 146,356 | 1 in 2.3K | 145K | Ricky | 569 |
| GB United Kingdom | #323 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | 19 | Ricky | 275 |
| HK Hong Kong | #154 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 703 | — | Ricky | 108 |
| GR Greece | #259 | ≈9,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Ricky | 22 |
| SG Singapore | #161 | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Ricky | 94 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ricky is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A diminutive of the male given name Richard.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, Ricky är en engelsk smekform till → Richard, som först i sen tid blivit officiellt förnamn i Sverige. Ett par kända namnbärare är den engelske komikern Ricky Gervais (f. 1961) och den puertoricanske artisten Ricky (egentligen Enrique) Martin (f. 1971).
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In French, Diminutif anglais de Richard; germanique ric- + hard- « puissant, fort ».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, Diminutif de Richard.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In Cebuano, a diminutive of the male given name Richard, from English
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ricky Jayb. 1946USAmerican magician and actor (1946–2018)
- Ricky Wilsonb. 1953USAmerican guitarist (1953–1985)
- Ricky Ruddb. 1956USAmerican racecar driver
- Ricky Pierceb. 1959USAmerican basketball player (born 1959)
- Ricky Gervaisb. 1961GBBritish comedian
- Ricky Schroderb. 1970USAmerican actor
- Royston Drentheb. 1987NLnot in their usual nameDutch footballer
- Ricky Álvarezb. 1988ARArgentine association football player (born 1988)
- Ricky Berensb. 1988USAmerican swimmer
- Ricky Heb. 1995CACanadian actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 84 sources across 47 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 145K | #381 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 979 | #381 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 248 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 15 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2020 | 4 | #599 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2007 | 3 | #357 |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Ricky a male or female name?
- Ricky is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Ricky?
- In the etymology graph, Ricardo, Rick and Rickey are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Richard.
- Where does the name Ricky come from?
- Pet form of Richard, also used independently as a girl’s name. Variants: Rickie; Ricki, Rikki (9). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What does the name Ricky mean?
- Recorded meaning: Pet form of Richard, also used independently as a girl’s name.
- In which country does Ricky have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 913 thousand people named Ricky in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ricky.
- How do you pronounce Ricky?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹɪki/ (IPA) for English.
- How common is the name Ricky?
- In the United States, the national register counted 146,356 people named Ricky in 2020, about 1 in 2.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Ricky compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Ricky is the 126th most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ricky?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rickyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ricky” — the 126th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.