Dick
29,321 recorded births · active 1880–2005
Compare Dick →Living-age distribution
The median living Dick is 80. If you meet a Dick, there's about a 70% chance they're between 65 and 88 years old.
Popularity arc
Peak Dick: 1934. Down 100% from peak.
Gender balance
Dick is almost always given to male babies — 100% male.
Rarity
Dick ranks #1,522 out of 105,966 names ever recorded by the SSA.
Geographic fingerprint
Dicks are 1.9x more common in the Midwest than the national average.
Predictive modeling
Three statistical models, all fit to Dick's own SSA history plus the historical behavior of every other name in the dataset.
Peak popularity prediction
Dick's modeled peak was #306 in 1934 — its trend isn't projected to beat that.
Not enough continuous recent history to project a peak rank.
Name life-cycle stage
A rule-based classifier over recent growth, momentum, and peak proximity.
Dick hasn't shown up in SSA records since 2005 — fewer than 5 babies have gotten the name in any year since, which is below what the SSA even reports.
Popularity survival model
Once a name reaches a rank tier, how long does it typically stay there before falling out?
Built from a Kaplan-Meier survival curve: every historical run any name has ever had above this tier, with runs still ongoing today counted as still in progress rather than as an exit.Dick isn't currently in the Top 100 tier. Estimated chance of entering it in the forecast window: 0%.
If Dick enters Top 100, chance it's still there after:
Names that do enter Top 100 have historically stayed a median of ~19 years. Based on 668 historical Top 100 runs across every name in the dataset.