Variant spelling of Ricky, itself a diminutive of Richard; the -ey ending is a mid-century American stylistic choice that reads as informal and dated today.
Nicknames
rick
Vibe
strong
How it ages.
Feels firmly mid-century American; this spelling particularly signals the 1950s-60s.
The cultural moment.
Used in the US from the 1940s through the 1970s; very rare in new births since the 1980s.
Other Germanic-English names with similar texture: