The Rickett Last Name

Rickett is an established spelling of the English surname Ricketts. Read literally, Rickett points to “Son of little Richard”.

Rickett and Ricketts

Rickett drops the “s” of Ricketts, a shortening that clerks often made. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them.

The 2010 US Census counted 2,879 people named Rickett, ranking it number 11,044 among American surnames. That puts it inside the top 25,000 US surnames.

Arms associated with the name

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