Given name & surname
Bucky
“resembling a male deer”
In English use, Bucky is a nickname for Buck. One English interpretation is “resembling a male deer.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
In English use, Bucky is a nickname for Buck. One English interpretation is “resembling a male deer.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
In English use, Bucky is a nickname for Buck. An origin associated with Buck is English.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1931. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Bucky through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,027
- 1,027 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1979
- 50 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 50 in 1979. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 653 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Bucky’s family of names
In English usage, Bucky is a nickname for Buck. In English usage, Bucky has a related form in Buckie. Bucky has a related form in Buck.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Bucky
- Bucky CovingtonAmerican singerborn 1977
- Bucky LasekAmerican skateboarder and rally cross driverborn 1972
- Bucky DentAmerican professional baseball player, shortstop, coachborn 1951
- Bucky WaltersAmerican Major League Baseball player, manager (1909-1991)
- Bucky BuckwalterAmerican basketball player, coach, executiveborn 1933
- Bucky BaxterAmerican musician1955–2020
- Bucky HodgesAmerican football player (born 1995)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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