Baxter
Baxter was given to 38 boys in 2025, #3,137 among boys’ names; 4,034 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,400 Americans named Baxter and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (59% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 13 and 51.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Baxter by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Baxter mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Baxter is “a male given name transferred from the surname.” Its etymology gives the sense “baker” (bæcestre).
From Middle English bakster, bakestre, from Old English bæcestre (“baker”), equivalent to bake + -ster.
/ˈbækstɚ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Baxter?
#3,137 among boys’ names, 2025
Baxter fell from #2,068 in 2015 to #3,137 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 35.5 to 22.2 per million.
74 babies in 2014, the peak
Baxter peaked in 2014, when 74 boys were given it, #1,945 among boys’ names. The 38 births of 2025 are 51% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 38 | #3,137 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 40 | #3,050 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 28 | #3,893 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 34 | #3,417 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 32 | #3,506 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 46 | #2,693 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 53 | #2,490 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 62 | #2,213 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 64 | #2,133 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 59 | #2,256 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 68 | #2,068 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 74 | #1,945 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 70 | #1,967 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 59 | #2,212 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 63 | #2,106 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 38 | #3,018 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 38 | #3,051 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 58 | #2,270 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 32 | #3,380 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 35 | #3,092 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 48 | #2,397 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 46 | #2,420 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 38 | #2,620 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 38 | #2,558 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 40 | #2,428 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 40 | #2,377 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 37 | #2,403 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 54 | #1,832 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 39 | #2,200 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 45 | #1,958 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 39 | #2,101 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 40 | #2,041 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 29 | #2,514 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 37 | #2,084 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 24 | #2,751 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 38 | #1,968 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 39 | #1,892 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 29 | #2,143 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 18 | #2,842 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 17 | #2,899 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 17 | #2,841 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,588 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,544 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 20 | #2,432 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 11 | #3,624 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 7 | #4,979 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 7 | #4,888 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,121 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 9 | #3,864 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 13 | #2,960 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 10 | #3,451 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 15 | #2,553 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 16 | #2,409 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 16 | #2,334 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 18 | #2,208 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 15 | #2,404 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 17 | #2,051 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 13 | #2,324 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 17 | #1,910 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 13 | #2,225 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 19 | #1,808 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 27 | #1,511 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 22 | #1,698 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 21 | #1,764 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 24 | #1,639 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 32 | #1,401 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 33 | #1,360 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 31 | #1,397 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 22 | #1,718 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 29 | #1,448 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 30 | #1,399 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 26 | #1,498 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 28 | #1,429 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 31 | #1,349 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 29 | #1,376 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 27 | #1,397 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 24 | #1,505 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 36 | #1,196 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 40 | #1,148 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 39 | #1,110 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 22 | #1,409 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 30 | #1,215 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 39 | #1,088 | 0.03 |
| 1942 | 19 | #1,632 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 29 | #1,234 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 18 | #1,633 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 34 | #1,104 | 0.03 |
| 1938 | 36 | #1,076 | 0.03 |
| 1937 | 29 | #1,235 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 31 | #1,183 | 0.03 |
| 1935 | 37 | #1,061 | 0.04 |
| 1934 | 30 | #1,216 | 0.03 |
| 1933 | 40 | #1,016 | 0.04 |
| 1932 | 30 | #1,238 | 0.03 |
| 1931 | 38 | #1,102 | 0.04 |
| 1930 | 37 | #1,154 | 0.03 |
| 1929 | 28 | #1,339 | 0.03 |
| 1928 | 35 | #1,213 | 0.03 |
| 1927 | 53 | #953 | 0.05 |
| 1926 | 40 | #1,127 | 0.04 |
| 1925 | 29 | #1,362 | 0.03 |
| 1924 | 58 | #919 | 0.05 |
| 1923 | 45 | #1,058 | 0.04 |
| 1922 | 44 | #1,059 | 0.04 |
| 1921 | 42 | #1,088 | 0.04 |
| 1920 | 44 | #1,048 | 0.04 |
| 1919 | 43 | #1,035 | 0.04 |
| 1918 | 36 | #1,155 | 0.04 |
| 1917 | 46 | #947 | 0.05 |
| 1916 | 41 | #999 | 0.05 |
| 1915 | 40 | #997 | 0.05 |
| 1914 | 40 | #856 | 0.06 |
| 1913 | 27 | #950 | 0.05 |
| 1912 | 24 | #919 | 0.06 |
| 1911 | 12 | #983 | 0.05 |
| 1910 | 10 | #1,047 | 0.05 |
| 1909 | 10 | #957 | 0.06 |
| 1908 | 11 | #828 | 0.07 |
| 1907 | 9 | #935 | 0.06 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,127 | 0.05 |
| 1905 | 8 | #931 | 0.06 |
| 1904 | 7 | #972 | 0.05 |
| 1903 | 7 | #917 | 0.06 |
| 1902 | 9 | #798 | 0.07 |
| 1901 | 7 | #862 | 0.07 |
| 1900 | 10 | #841 | 0.07 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,060 | 0.05 |
| 1898 | 7 | #893 | 0.06 |
| 1897 | 10 | #687 | 0.09 |
| 1896 | 10 | #731 | 0.08 |
| 1895 | 7 | #880 | 0.06 |
| 1894 | 7 | #865 | 0.06 |
| 1893 | 8 | #774 | 0.07 |
| 1892 | 8 | #801 | 0.07 |
| 1891 | 5 | #982 | 0.05 |
| 1890 | 9 | #668 | 0.08 |
| 1889 | 7 | #800 | 0.06 |
| 1888 | 10 | #654 | 0.08 |
| 1887 | 12 | #518 | 0.12 |
| 1886 | 13 | #515 | 0.12 |
| 1885 | 8 | #705 | 0.07 |
| 1884 | 8 | #709 | 0.07 |
| 1883 | 6 | #809 | 0.06 |
| 1882 | 7 | #764 | 0.06 |
| 1881 | 6 | #791 | 0.06 |
| 1880 | 11 | #573 | 0.10 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Baxter a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Baxter has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 146 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Baxter: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Baxter, and how old are they?
2,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 59% of the 4,034 Americans ever recorded as Baxter. The median Baxter alive today is 26 years old; half are between 13 and 51.
The 2020 Census counted 2,365 people named Baxter (54 women and girls, 2,311 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,357 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 101 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 357 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 185 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 398 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 692 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 663 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Baxter born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,053 | 1.0× |
Where Baxter is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Baxter is most over-represented in North Carolina: since 1910 it was given 4.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Baxter with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Baxter
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Baxter and names like it
- Compare Baxter and MosesBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBaxter peaked in 2014.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Baxter since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Baxter: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Baxter.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Baxter alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.