# Who's the youngest Dick in America? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 24, 2013, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-youngest-dick-in-america/674696 "2013-11-24T19:46:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soul_brother_number_two/32/3515_2.png) [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2013, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-youngest-dick-in-america/674696/1 "2013-11-24T19:46:37Z")
Asked this over to Reddit, got zero responses. Been wondering since forever when Dick stopped being a nickname for Richard. I’m fifty, remember a few dads when I was a kid who went by Dick. But no one in my age group did, all Rick, Richie, etc. Who is the youngest Dick you know, Dopers? ---
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2013, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-youngest-dick-in-america/674696/2 "2013-11-24T19:48:54Z")
I am 43. I don’t recall ever knowing anyone who went by Dick. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2013, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-youngest-dick-in-america/674696/3 "2013-11-24T19:57:36Z")
I’ve wondered this very thing. Any Dicks I’ve known would be in their 70s by now. This should be investigated, and note should be made when the last Dick dies. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Frazzled](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frazzled/32/3368_2.png) [@Frazzled](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frazzled)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2013, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-youngest-dick-in-america/674696/4 "2013-11-24T20:15:35Z")
My Dad is a Dick and a dick… The name definitely suits him (he has good traits too). He’s 69 so that’s the youngest I know. I work with a Richard who just recently turned 60 and he goes by Rick. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2013, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-youngest-dick-in-america/674696/5 "2013-11-24T20:38:06Z")
I actually don’t think I know any Dicks. I know dicks, but not Dicks. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2013, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-youngest-dick-in-america/674696/6 "2013-11-24T21:06:56Z")
> [@Anamorphic](#): > > I am 43. I don’t recall ever knowing anyone who went by Dick. I do. On top of preferring “Dick”, his last name was Peters. :rolleyes: I knew a guy named Richard Tate in the military. His troops insisted on referring to him as Dick Tate. I pointed out one drunken night that _tete_ was the French word for head, so Richard Tete would be Dick Head. I’m not sure they got it. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2013, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-youngest-dick-in-america/674696/7 "2013-11-24T22:28:00Z")
Only one I know is in his 60’s. Actually, it’s his middle name that’s Richard, but Dick’s what he goes by. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2013, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-youngest-dick-in-america/674696/8 "2013-11-24T22:43:37Z")
Went to high school with at least one Dick. He’d be 59 or so now. A cousin is married to a man who goes by Dick, but he’s a few years older than I. (Her sister’s husband, incidentally, is Rick.) ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2013, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-youngest-dick-in-america/674696/9 "2013-11-24T23:02:32Z")
The last guy I knew who went by the name Dick was a colleague born around 1940. Several mentioned upthread are younger. ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2013, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-youngest-dick-in-america/674696/10 "2013-11-24T23:05:52Z")
Richard Brodhead, currently president of Duke University was born in 1947. He goes by Dick, or at least did when he was my neighbor here in Connecticut. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2013, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-youngest-dick-in-america/674696/11 "2013-11-24T23:06:37Z")
I think the OP is on to something here. Checking online, the only two celebrities under fifty I could find that go by the name Dick are [Dick Norman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Norman) at 42 and [Dick Togo](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Togo) at 44. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2013, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-youngest-dick-in-america/674696/12 "2013-11-24T23:07:08Z")
My wife and I were discussing this very thing about an hour ago. We know a guy named Dick, and he’s in his early 60s. We concluded this nickname will die with the baby boomers. ---
**Author:** ![ed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c77e96/32.png) [@ed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ed)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2013, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-youngest-dick-in-america/674696/13 "2013-11-24T23:31:27Z")
I don’t know how old [Dick Wall](http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/java/dickwall1-1498851.html) is but he doesn’t look _that_ old to me. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2013, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-youngest-dick-in-america/674696/14 "2013-11-24T23:33:27Z")
There’s a somewhat well-known family in my town, and that’s their last name. Isn’t it a fairly common Dutch first name? And no, it’s not a diminutive of Richard any more than the Dutch Bob is a diminutive of Robert. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2013, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-youngest-dick-in-america/674696/15 "2013-11-24T23:43:39Z")
There was Dick Sargent of Bewitched fame, but he’s dead. Dick Tracy never gets old, of course. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2013, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-youngest-dick-in-america/674696/16 "2013-11-24T23:49:09Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > There was Dick Sargent of Bewitched fame, but he’s dead. Dick Tracy never gets old, of course. That Melville novel about the great white whale isn’t going to have its title changed any time soon, either. ---
**Author:** ![Zagalejo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Zagalejo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zagalejo)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2013, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-youngest-dick-in-america/674696/17 "2013-11-25T00:11:46Z")
Former NBA player Dickey Simpkins is 41. [http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/s/simpkdi01.html](http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/s/simpkdi01.html) ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2013, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-youngest-dick-in-america/674696/18 "2013-11-25T00:17:11Z")
Dick Trickle died this year at 71. I know that isn’t what you asked, but I just wanted to say “Dick Trickle.” ---
**Author:** ![evasgram](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ec9cab/32.png) [@evasgram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evasgram)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2013, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-youngest-dick-in-america/674696/19 "2013-11-25T00:37:46Z")
The youngest Dick I know is around 60, his last name is Dodick. Dick Dodick. ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2013, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-youngest-dick-in-america/674696/20 "2013-11-25T01:43:49Z")
I guess a related question is, “When did ‘dick’ start to mean ‘dong’?” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-youngest-dick-in-america/674696.md?page=2)