Dixie
Dixie was given to 130 girls in 2025, #1,605 among girls’ names; 45,373 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 25,000 Americans named Dixie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (55% of everyone recorded); the median is 68 years old and half are between 32 and 79.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dixie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dixie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Dixie is “a female given name transferred from the place name.”
First attested in 1859. Unknown, but may come from the Mason-Dixon line, the boundary between the northern states and the southern states, or from the slang term dixie for a Louisiana $10 bill (equivalent to English tenner), in turn from French dix (ten).
/ˈdɪksi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dixie?
#1,605 among girls’ names, 2025
Dixie fell from #934 in 2015 to #1,605 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.16 to 0.08 per 1,000.
1,246 babies in 1938, the peak
Dixie peaked in 1938, when 1,246 babies were given it (1,229 girls, #167 among girls’ names). The 130 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 130 | #1,605 | 0.08 |
| 2024 | 135 | #1,568 | 0.08 |
| 2023 | 197 | #1,210 | 0.12 |
| 2022 | 207 | #1,167 | 0.13 |
| 2021 | 237 | #1,063 | 0.14 |
| 2020 | 229 | #1,079 | 0.14 |
| 2019 | 259 | #997 | 0.15 |
| 2018 | 257 | #1,011 | 0.15 |
| 2017 | 226 | #1,116 | 0.13 |
| 2016 | 256 | #1,035 | 0.14 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 290 | #934 | 0.16 |
| 2014 | 345 | #808 | 0.19 |
| 2013 | 293 | #883 | 0.17 |
| 2012 | 313 | #853 | 0.18 |
| 2011 | 310 | #849 | 0.18 |
| 2010 | 282 | #921 | 0.16 |
| 2009 | 289 | #926 | 0.16 |
| 2008 | 278 | #963 | 0.15 |
| 2007 | 295 | #919 | 0.15 |
| 2006 | 148 | #1,490 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 151 | #1,420 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 116 | #1,669 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 136 | #1,446 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 124 | #1,521 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 148 | #1,299 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 114 | #1,557 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 99 | #1,668 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 81 | #1,888 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 81 | #1,826 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 108 | #1,496 | 0.06 |
| 1995 | 89 | #1,651 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 95 | #1,594 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 117 | #1,390 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 100 | #1,551 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 120 | #1,357 | 0.06 |
| 1990 | 105 | #1,485 | 0.06 |
| 1989 | 131 | #1,223 | 0.07 |
| 1988 | 79 | #1,647 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 91 | #1,435 | 0.05 |
| 1986 | 75 | #1,589 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 103 | #1,298 | 0.06 |
| 1984 | 113 | #1,175 | 0.07 |
| 1983 | 151 | #969 | 0.09 |
| 1982 | 125 | #1,127 | 0.07 |
| 1981 | 135 | #1,056 | 0.08 |
| 1980 | 172 | #889 | 0.10 |
| 1979 | 116 | #1,146 | 0.07 |
| 1978 | 140 | #987 | 0.09 |
| 1977 | 186 | #807 | 0.12 |
| 1976 | 172 | #808 | 0.12 |
| 1975 | 203 | #724 | 0.14 |
| 1974 | 182 | #766 | 0.12 |
| 1973 | 187 | #747 | 0.13 |
| 1972 | 190 | #734 | 0.12 |
| 1971 | 153 | #877 | 0.09 |
| 1970 | 160 | #845 | 0.09 |
| 1969 | 182 | #752 | 0.11 |
| 1968 | 157 | #804 | 0.10 |
| 1967 | 160 | #787 | 0.10 |
| 1966 | 219 | #652 | 0.13 |
| 1965 | 208 | #680 | 0.12 |
| 1964 | 323 | #552 | 0.17 |
| 1963 | 348 | #522 | 0.18 |
| 1962 | 361 | #512 | 0.18 |
| 1961 | 381 | #497 | 0.19 |
| 1960 | 457 | #457 | 0.23 |
| 1959 | 490 | #433 | 0.24 |
| 1958 | 494 | #421 | 0.25 |
| 1957 | 610 | #367 | 0.30 |
| 1956 | 627 | #347 | 0.31 |
| 1955 | 649 | #335 | 0.33 |
| 1954 | 747 | #310 | 0.38 |
| 1953 | 942 | #265 | 0.50 |
| 1952 | 771 | #291 | 0.42 |
| 1951 | 752 | #286 | 0.42 |
| 1950 | 687 | #295 | 0.40 |
| 1949 | 849 | #263 | 0.50 |
| 1948 | 865 | #256 | 0.51 |
| 1947 | 1,063 | #228 | 0.60 |
| 1946 | 986 | #228 | 0.63 |
| 1945 | 884 | #215 | 0.68 |
| 1944 | 944 | #208 | 0.71 |
| 1943 | 1,044 | #202 | 0.75 |
| 1942 | 1,061 | #193 | 0.79 |
| 1941 | 1,046 | #181 | 0.87 |
| 1940 | 1,170 | #171 | 1.0 |
| 1939 | 1,175 | #169 | 1.1 |
| 1938 | 1,229 | #167 | 1.1 |
| 1937 | 1,161 | #174 | 1.1 |
| 1936 | 1,105 | #174 | 1.1 |
| 1935 | 930 | #188 | 0.89 |
| 1934 | 833 | #214 | 0.80 |
| 1933 | 646 | #240 | 0.64 |
| 1932 | 629 | #247 | 0.59 |
| 1931 | 617 | #244 | 0.58 |
| 1930 | 512 | #291 | 0.45 |
| 1929 | 358 | #343 | 0.32 |
| 1928 | 387 | #343 | 0.34 |
| 1927 | 372 | #349 | 0.31 |
| 1926 | 369 | #347 | 0.31 |
| 1925 | 340 | #372 | 0.28 |
| 1924 | 388 | #339 | 0.31 |
| 1923 | 330 | #367 | 0.27 |
| 1922 | 306 | #372 | 0.25 |
| 1921 | 322 | #376 | 0.26 |
| 1920 | 326 | #364 | 0.27 |
| 1919 | 307 | #369 | 0.27 |
| 1918 | 350 | #352 | 0.30 |
| 1917 | 255 | #395 | 0.24 |
| 1916 | 235 | #407 | 0.23 |
| 1915 | 206 | #422 | 0.21 |
| 1914 | 164 | #414 | 0.22 |
| 1913 | 155 | #389 | 0.25 |
| 1912 | 129 | #410 | 0.23 |
| 1911 | 92 | #425 | 0.22 |
| 1910 | 86 | #429 | 0.22 |
| 1909 | 87 | #391 | 0.25 |
| 1908 | 74 | #420 | 0.22 |
| 1907 | 67 | #435 | 0.21 |
| 1906 | 70 | #409 | 0.24 |
| 1905 | 53 | #465 | 0.18 |
| 1904 | 50 | #465 | 0.18 |
| 1903 | 57 | #422 | 0.22 |
| 1902 | 48 | #454 | 0.18 |
| 1901 | 32 | #540 | 0.13 |
| 1900 | 54 | #458 | 0.18 |
| 1899 | 45 | #434 | 0.19 |
| 1898 | 48 | #444 | 0.19 |
| 1897 | 34 | #498 | 0.15 |
| 1896 | 40 | #457 | 0.17 |
| 1895 | 32 | #523 | 0.14 |
| 1894 | 38 | #451 | 0.17 |
| 1893 | 31 | #489 | 0.15 |
| 1892 | 36 | #454 | 0.17 |
| 1891 | 29 | #477 | 0.16 |
| 1890 | 41 | #397 | 0.22 |
| 1889 | 39 | #389 | 0.22 |
| 1888 | 38 | #397 | 0.21 |
| 1887 | 29 | #403 | 0.20 |
| 1886 | 22 | #464 | 0.15 |
| 1885 | 24 | #432 | 0.18 |
| 1884 | 27 | #386 | 0.21 |
| 1883 | 16 | #486 | 0.14 |
| 1882 | 20 | #408 | 0.19 |
| 1881 | 10 | #547 | 0.11 |
| 1880 | 15 | #437 | 0.16 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dixie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 45,373 Americans recorded as Dixie, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 130 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Dixie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dixie, and how old are they?
25,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 55% of the 45,373 Americans ever recorded as Dixie. The median Dixie alive today is 68 years old; half are between 32 and 79.
The 2020 Census counted 26,363 people named Dixie (26,081 women and girls, 282 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 28,136 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 5,340 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 9,390 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,600 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,700 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,940 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,040 |
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 Dixie born?
The states with the most babies named Dixie are Texas, California and Missouri, with 20% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Missouri is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 3,253 | #2,081 | 1.1× |
| California | 2,461 | #3,222 | 0.8× |
| Missouri | 2,224 | #838 | 2.0× |
| Ohio | 2,005 | #902 | 0.9× |
| Iowa | 1,903 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Illinois | 1,830 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Indiana | 1,657 | #1,087 | 1.4× |
| Kentucky | 1,608 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| North Carolina | 1,443 | #1,516 | 1.0× |
| Oklahoma | 1,339 | #564 | 1.8× |
Where Dixie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dixie is most over-represented in Utah: since 1910 it was given 3.2 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 girls’ 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 Dixie 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 45,433 babies since 1880, Dixie is the most given (100% of them). In 2025 it was given to 130 of their 130 babies (100%), 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 Dixie
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 Dixie and names like it
- Compare Dixie and DixiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sDixie peaked in 1938.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dixie since 1910.
- From place namesWiktionary’s origin for Dixie: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1938The year the most babies were named Dixie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Dixie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.