Brixton
Brixton was given to 349 boys in 2025, #744 among boys’ names; 4,841 Americans have been recorded with it since 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,810 Americans named Brixton and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 9.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brixton by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Brixton mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Brixton is “a male given name transferred from the place name or surname.” Its etymology gives the sense “the stone of Brixi (a Saxon lord)” (meaning).
(district of London): Thought to originate from Brixistane, meaning “the stone of Brixi (a Saxon lord)”.
/ˈbɹɪkstən/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Brixton?
#744 among boys’ names, 2025
Brixton rose from #984 in 2015 to #744 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.11 to 0.20 per 1,000.
568 babies in 2021, the peak
Brixton peaked in 2021, when 568 babies were given it (531 boys, #549 among boys’ names). The 363 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 64% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 349 | #744 | 0.20 |
| 2024 | 422 | #653 | 0.24 |
| 2023 | 418 | #653 | 0.24 |
| 2022 | 461 | #608 | 0.26 |
| 2021 | 531 | #549 | 0.30 |
| 2020 | 443 | #616 | 0.26 |
| 2019 | 341 | #718 | 0.19 |
| 2018 | 298 | #779 | 0.16 |
| 2017 | 243 | #885 | 0.13 |
| 2016 | 249 | #878 | 0.13 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 210 | #984 | 0.11 |
| 2014 | 155 | #1,190 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 115 | #1,433 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 65 | #2,091 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 66 | #2,038 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 47 | #2,585 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 42 | #2,850 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 18 | #5,084 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 25 | #4,022 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 16 | #5,335 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 9 | #7,705 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 10 | #7,035 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 5 | #11,096 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 6 | #9,532 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 5 | #10,778 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Brixton a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,841 Americans recorded as Brixton, 6% are girls and 94% boys. In 2025 it went to 14 girls and 349 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Brixton: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brixton, and how old are they?
4,810 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,841 Americans ever recorded as Brixton. The median Brixton alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 9.
The 2020 Census counted 1,924 people named Brixton (152 women and girls, 1,772 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,187 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 350 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,460 |
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 Brixton born?
The states with the most babies named Brixton are California, Texas and Utah, with 30% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Utah is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 37 | #721 | 1.6× |
| Texas | 31 | #846 | 0.6× |
| Utah | 25 | #213 | 3.8× |
| Florida | 17 | #852 | 0.6× |
| Arizona | 15 | #466 | 1.9× |
| Ohio | 12 | #715 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 12 | #723 | 0.7× |
| Colorado | 11 | #506 | 0.8× |
| Kentucky | 11 | #427 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 10 | #859 | 0.6× |
Where Brixton is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Brixton is most over-represented in Utah: since 2001 it was given 3.8 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 Brixton with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 5,053 babies since 1880, Brixton is the most given (96% of them). In 2025 it was given to 363 of their 380 babies (96%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Brixton
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 Brixton and names like it
- Compare Brixton and BrixtenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sBrixton peaked in 2021.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brixton since 1910.
- From place namesWiktionary’s origin for Brixton: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Brixton.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Brixton alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.