Bixby — boys' name
20 babies named Bixby in U.S. Social Security records since 2014, with the highest year being 2015. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
100% of everyone ever named Bixby was born in this single decade.
10 babies were named Bixby in 2015 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Bixby
The Social Security Administration has registered 20 babies named Bixby between 2014 and 2018, spanning 5 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Bixby currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2018. The name reached its historical peak in 2015, when 10 babies received it in a single year. Bixby is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 17 additional births since 2010.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Bixby performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 20 births during that ten-year window. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Bixby in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Bixby in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 20 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Bixby at a glance
Last recorded 2018Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Bixby popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2018–2014
- Peak year (2015)
- 10
- Annual births at peak — across 5 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2018.
20 total births across 5 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2015 with 10 births in a single year.
Bixby popularity over time — girls
17 total births recorded since 2010 (Bixby as girls' name)
Unisex use is substantial
The girls' variant of Bixby accounts for 46% of total recorded use across both genders.
Bixby by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 20 births that decade — 100% of Bixby's all-time total
Bixby decade highlights
- Peak decade 20 births
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Bixby's strongest decade
20 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 100% of all-time use.
Bixby by state
Where Bixby concentrates geographically — total births since 2014
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 5 | 25.0% |
5 of 20 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 25.0% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 25.0% of all recorded births nationwide — a strong regional concentration for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 2014–2018 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.