Dixon
Dixon was given to 38 boys in 2025, #3,144 among boys’ names; 3,084 Americans have been recorded with it since 1881 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,210 Americans named Dixon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (72% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 11 and 51.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dixon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dixon mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Dixon is “a male given name.”
/ˈdɪksən/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dixon?
#3,144 among boys’ names, 2025
Dixon fell from #2,039 in 2015 to #3,144 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 36.5 to 22.2 per million.
80 babies in 2016, the peak
Dixon peaked in 2016, when 80 babies were given it (75 boys, #1,943 among boys’ names). The 38 births of 2025 are 48% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 38 | #3,144 | 22.2 |
| 2024 | 49 | #2,678 | 28.4 |
| 2023 | 43 | #2,909 | 25.1 |
| 2022 | 40 | #3,065 | 22.9 |
| 2021 | 30 | #3,666 | 17.1 |
| 2020 | 66 | #2,120 | 38.2 |
| 2019 | 54 | #2,467 | 30.1 |
| 2018 | 58 | #2,309 | 31.9 |
| 2017 | 60 | #2,220 | 32.4 |
| 2016 | 75 | #1,943 | 39.5 |
Every recorded year (116)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 70 | #2,039 | 36.5 |
| 2014 | 75 | #1,927 | 39.0 |
| 2013 | 62 | #2,144 | 32.8 |
| 2012 | 54 | #2,363 | 28.5 |
| 2011 | 59 | #2,209 | 31.1 |
| 2010 | 56 | #2,291 | 29.2 |
| 2009 | 50 | #2,537 | 25.2 |
| 2008 | 37 | #3,120 | 18.1 |
| 2007 | 35 | #3,201 | 16.9 |
| 2006 | 33 | #3,240 | 16.1 |
| 2005 | 38 | #2,808 | 19.0 |
| 2004 | 34 | #2,960 | 17.1 |
| 2003 | 35 | #2,798 | 17.7 |
| 2002 | 25 | #3,473 | 12.9 |
| 2001 | 22 | #3,744 | 11.3 |
| 2000 | 35 | #2,633 | 17.8 |
| 1999 | 33 | #2,623 | 17.2 |
| 1998 | 28 | #2,876 | 14.6 |
| 1997 | 25 | #3,005 | 13.3 |
| 1996 | 38 | #2,188 | 20.1 |
| 1995 | 27 | #2,699 | 14.2 |
| 1994 | 24 | #2,963 | 12.4 |
| 1993 | 25 | #2,796 | 12.7 |
| 1992 | 25 | #2,754 | 12.5 |
| 1991 | 20 | #3,137 | 9.9 |
| 1990 | 14 | #4,025 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 25 | #2,553 | 12.5 |
| 1988 | 17 | #3,101 | 8.9 |
| 1987 | 14 | #3,379 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 16 | #3,032 | 8.7 |
| 1985 | 9 | #4,417 | 4.9 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,659 | 4.4 |
| 1983 | 20 | #2,432 | 11.2 |
| 1982 | 9 | #4,322 | 5.0 |
| 1981 | 12 | #3,466 | 6.7 |
| 1980 | 18 | #2,639 | 10.1 |
| 1979 | 16 | #2,805 | 9.3 |
| 1977 | 14 | #2,945 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 11 | #3,322 | 7.0 |
| 1975 | 14 | #2,788 | 9.0 |
| 1974 | 12 | #2,993 | 7.6 |
| 1973 | 17 | #2,336 | 10.9 |
| 1972 | 16 | #2,350 | 9.9 |
| 1971 | 16 | #2,393 | 9.0 |
| 1970 | 12 | #2,771 | 6.5 |
| 1969 | 16 | #2,159 | 8.9 |
| 1968 | 21 | #1,744 | 12.1 |
| 1967 | 13 | #2,269 | 7.5 |
| 1966 | 16 | #1,983 | 9.0 |
| 1965 | 18 | #1,875 | 9.7 |
| 1964 | 17 | #1,992 | 8.5 |
| 1963 | 15 | #2,134 | 7.4 |
| 1962 | 20 | #1,819 | 9.7 |
| 1961 | 24 | #1,655 | 11.3 |
| 1960 | 28 | #1,530 | 13.1 |
| 1959 | 25 | #1,599 | 11.7 |
| 1958 | 22 | #1,695 | 10.4 |
| 1957 | 29 | #1,459 | 13.4 |
| 1956 | 33 | #1,341 | 15.6 |
| 1955 | 30 | #1,402 | 14.6 |
| 1954 | 27 | #1,471 | 13.2 |
| 1953 | 38 | #1,216 | 19.3 |
| 1952 | 22 | #1,629 | 11.3 |
| 1951 | 37 | #1,201 | 19.7 |
| 1950 | 25 | #1,475 | 14.0 |
| 1949 | 19 | #1,716 | 10.7 |
| 1948 | 33 | #1,262 | 18.8 |
| 1947 | 32 | #1,301 | 17.5 |
| 1946 | 28 | #1,333 | 17.2 |
| 1945 | 17 | #1,642 | 12.6 |
| 1944 | 28 | #1,261 | 20.5 |
| 1943 | 29 | #1,286 | 20.3 |
| 1942 | 32 | #1,231 | 23.2 |
| 1941 | 20 | #1,547 | 16.3 |
| 1940 | 31 | #1,214 | 26.7 |
| 1939 | 21 | #1,465 | 19.0 |
| 1938 | 27 | #1,285 | 24.3 |
| 1937 | 23 | #1,418 | 21.6 |
| 1936 | 26 | #1,302 | 25.1 |
| 1935 | 20 | #1,555 | 19.2 |
| 1934 | 18 | #1,676 | 17.4 |
| 1933 | 17 | #1,724 | 17.1 |
| 1932 | 18 | #1,734 | 17.2 |
| 1931 | 23 | #1,464 | 22.1 |
| 1930 | 15 | #1,992 | 13.7 |
| 1929 | 18 | #1,810 | 16.7 |
| 1928 | 24 | #1,534 | 21.7 |
| 1927 | 20 | #1,759 | 17.7 |
| 1926 | 19 | #1,809 | 17.1 |
| 1925 | 23 | #1,597 | 20.6 |
| 1924 | 24 | #1,589 | 21.2 |
| 1923 | 28 | #1,392 | 25.5 |
| 1922 | 23 | #1,600 | 21.1 |
| 1921 | 18 | #1,924 | 16.3 |
| 1920 | 25 | #1,513 | 23.5 |
| 1919 | 12 | #2,406 | 12.2 |
| 1918 | 28 | #1,351 | 27.6 |
| 1917 | 13 | #2,204 | 14.0 |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,070 | 15.7 |
| 1915 | 21 | #1,517 | 24.7 |
| 1914 | 18 | #1,453 | 27.5 |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,134 | 15.6 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,347 | 14.0 |
| 1911 | 5 | #1,806 | 22.1 |
| 1910 | 5 | #1,652 | 25.7 |
| 1881 | 6 | #806 | 59.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dixon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dixon has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 116 years of records.
Girls and boys named Dixon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dixon, and how old are they?
2,210 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 72% of the 3,084 Americans ever recorded as Dixon. The median Dixon alive today is 22 years old; half are between 11 and 51.
The 2020 Census counted 2,658 people named Dixon (142 women and girls, 2,516 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,095 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 85 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 327 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 202 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 289 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 590 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 720 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 3,694 babies since 1880, Dixon is the most given (83% of them). In 2025 it was given to 38 of their 38 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 Dixon
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1880-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Vann | 2,081 |
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 Dixon and names like it
- Compare Dixon and DicksonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dixon since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Dixon.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Dixon alive today were born 2013-2025.
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