Nixon — #874 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Nixon

The Social Security Administration has registered 7,177 babies named Nixon between 1917 and 2024, spanning 108 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Nixon currently holds the #874 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2017, when 607 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nixon performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 4,462 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Nixon shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,498 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Utah and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Nixon in 41 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nixon 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 7,177 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.