as a First Name
Short form of Richard. The alteration of the initial consonant is supposed to result from the difficulty that English speakers in the Middle Ages had in pronouncing the trilled Norman r-.
| 1,208th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 23,710
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 25,422
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- Wyoming
- has the most people named Dick per capita
- 1934
- marked the height of its popularity
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