Dickie
4,719 recorded births · active 1916–1993
Compare Dickie →Living-age distribution
The median living Dickie is 74. If you meet a Dickie, there's about a 70% chance they're between 59 and 83 years old.
Popularity arc
Peak Dickie: 1940. Down 100% from peak.
Gender balance
94.3% male, 5.7% female.
Rarity
Dickie ranks #4,373 out of 105,966 names ever recorded by the SSA.
Geographic fingerprint
Dickies are 1.1x more common in the South than the national average.
Predictive modeling
Three statistical models, all fit to Dickie's own SSA history plus the historical behavior of every other name in the dataset.
Peak popularity prediction
Dickie's modeled peak was #997 in 1942 — 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.
Dickie hasn't shown up in SSA records since 1993 — 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.Dickie isn't currently in the Top 100 tier. Estimated chance of entering it in the forecast window: 0%.
If Dickie 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.