Rick: Last Name Origin and Family Crest

Rick? Think of it as Ricks with a different pen. Name scholars give the meaning as “Son of Rick”. Without the “s” of Ricks, Rick is a simpler written form of the same name. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. Related forms: Rickson.

The 2010 census count for Rick in the United States was 4,591, good for rank 7,258. French civil records give 418 births under the name Rick from 1891 to 2000, peaking in 1951–1960.

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Rick, so the heraldry linked to Ricks is a starting point, not an automatic right. For the full story, order the Rick surname pack.