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[Opinions] Rick

by peonini

8/24/2017, 10:30 PM

WDYT of the name Rick? Just like most of my posts, this ones also inspired inspired by a popular television show I watch (The Walking Dead).

I think I can see it making a comeback in the future.

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- Fiammetta (lady murasaki)

8/25/2017, 1:52 PM

It's fine as a nn for Richard.

- Kaesy

8/25/2017, 7:45 AM

It's a fine nickname - definitely the best of Richard's - but I strongly dislike nicknames as full given first names.

- queenv

8/25/2017, 6:05 AM

I've always liked Rick, but not as a full name. I'm not fond of Richard, and Frederick is only starting to grow on me, and I wouldn't use a full name I don't like just to get to a nickname I do like, so I'd never have a son named Rick.

- Gracie (YMPvt) +2

8/25/2017, 5:54 AM

Rick is only a nickname to me. I think Richard is likely to maintain a fair bit of popularity and Rick is way more likely to stick around than Dick given common vernacular. I don't think teasing would be a huge issue. I knew a few guys called Ricky growing up, and up through high school they stuck with Ricky. If someone is calling a person Rick the Dick in adulthood, that's just ridiculous.

- Perrine (Destry)

8/25/2017, 8:38 AM

Teasing someone about their name is pretty ridiculous in general, no matter what it is. I was thinking of immature teenagers when I wrote this ;) However if the guy named Rick would be really unpleasant I doubt that even some adults could resist the temptation. Not that I think they would call him that to his face and not that it really matters.

- queenv

8/25/2017, 6:07 AM

LOL. I had a uncle named Richard nn Dick, and now and then my older sister and I would call him Dick the Dick. He was always very nice to us. We called him that because he took for himself everything that my grandparents had meant to leave to my mother.

- Mireio (Anna21)

8/25/2017, 5:08 AM

I'd assume it was short for Richard, which I don't think will come back for a while. I do know a 4-year-old Richie though.

- CN

8/25/2017, 4:43 AM

I kind of like it in theory but not on its own. I would expect a Rick to have a longer full name: Richard, Ricardo, Rikard etc.
It's a bit dated but I'd be pleasantly surprised to meet a little boy called Rick.

I work with a Rikard, some of his friends call him Richie (this spelling).

- Perrine (Destry)

8/25/2017, 1:29 AM

As far as I know Rick has pretty much always been used as a nickname for Richard. I don't think there are many people who are just named Rick. I really like Richard but I much prefer it without any nicknames. I don't think it will make a comeback anytime soon. Maybe in 50+ years. At the moment it seems super dated and very middle aged. I would put it in the same category as Bob, Jim and Dave. Robert, James and David are much nicer and classic.

Another problem is that Rick rhymes with Dick. Which used to be a popular nickname for Richard as well but now it is a word that I wouldn't want my name to rhyme with. The Ricks and Dicks born in the 50s or so didn't have problems with their names because back then they were common but I don't think they are used much anymore and in future generations I can totally see a Rick being teased with Rick the dick jokes :( I would stick with Richard.

This message was edited 8/25/2017, 1:33 AM

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