Nixon
Nixon was given to 206 boys in 2025, #1,061 among boys’ names; 7,728 Americans have been recorded with it since 1917 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,570 Americans named Nixon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 6 and 13.
Nixon dropped 194 places in 2025, the #6 drop among the boys’ top 1,000 of 2024.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nixon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Nixon mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Nixon is “an English surname transferred from the given name.” Its etymology gives the sense “son of Nicholas” (meaning).
From Nick + -son, an alteration of Nickson, originally a patronymic meaning “son of Nicholas”.
/ˈnɪk.sɪn/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Nixon?
#1,061 among boys’ names, 2025
Nixon fell from #513 in 2015 to #1,061 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.29 to 0.12 per 1,000.
638 babies in 2017, the peak
Nixon peaked in 2017, when 638 babies were given it (607 boys, #482 among boys’ names). The 214 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 34% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 206 | #1,061 | 0.12 |
| 2024 | 279 | #867 | 0.16 |
| 2023 | 264 | #883 | 0.15 |
| 2022 | 354 | #733 | 0.20 |
| 2021 | 384 | #693 | 0.22 |
| 2020 | 411 | #651 | 0.24 |
| 2019 | 471 | #589 | 0.26 |
| 2018 | 573 | #500 | 0.32 |
| 2017 | 607 | #482 | 0.33 |
| 2016 | 570 | #519 | 0.30 |
Every recorded year (67)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 560 | #513 | 0.29 |
| 2014 | 470 | #587 | 0.24 |
| 2013 | 433 | #588 | 0.23 |
| 2012 | 365 | #653 | 0.19 |
| 2011 | 226 | #900 | 0.12 |
| 2010 | 188 | #1,035 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 154 | #1,180 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 119 | #1,421 | 0.06 |
| 2007 | 78 | #1,857 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 74 | #1,850 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 57 | #2,154 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 47 | #2,402 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 29 | #3,245 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 22 | #3,873 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 22 | #3,805 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 25 | #3,385 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 18 | #4,104 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 24 | #3,260 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 25 | #3,034 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 26 | #2,882 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 18 | #3,656 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 17 | #3,849 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 15 | #4,163 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,509 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 17 | #3,574 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,821 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 14 | #3,951 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 10 | #4,675 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,711 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,747 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,576 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 6 | #6,100 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 9 | #4,385 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 8 | #4,874 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,320 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,977 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,644 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 7 | #4,112 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 10 | #3,003 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,474 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 12 | #2,501 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 8 | #3,205 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 9 | #2,913 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 10 | #2,662 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,043 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 6 | #3,451 | under 0.01 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,362 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 9 | #2,569 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 5 | #3,885 | under 0.01 |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,562 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,013 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,059 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 7 | #3,744 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,172 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 7 | #3,719 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,615 | under 0.01 |
| 1917 | 6 | #3,851 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Nixon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 7,728 Americans recorded as Nixon, 4% are girls and 96% boys. In 2025 it went to 8 girls and 206 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Nixon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nixon, and how old are they?
7,570 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 7,728 Americans ever recorded as Nixon. The median Nixon alive today is 10 years old; half are between 6 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 6,618 people named Nixon (267 women and girls, 6,351 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,732 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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 | 11 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 31 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 24 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 173 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,530 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5,800 |
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 Nixon born?
The states with the most babies named Nixon are California, Utah and Texas, with 66% 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 | 55 | #556 | 1.6× |
| Utah | 22 | #243 | 8.1× |
| Texas | 18 | #1,203 | 0.6× |
| Arizona | 8 | #757 | 2.3× |
| North Carolina | 8 | #1,001 | 0.6× |
| Idaho | 7 | #364 | 2.6× |
| Nevada | 6 | #496 | 1.7× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,321 | 0.3× |
| Washington | 5 | #1,108 | 0.6× |
| Colorado | 5 | #925 | 0.7× |
Where Nixon is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nixon is most over-represented in Utah: since 1917 it was given 8.1 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 Nixon 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 8,461 babies since 1880, Nixon is the most given (91% of them). In 2025 it was given to 214 of their 241 babies (89%), 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 Nixon
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 Nixon and names like it
- Compare Nixon and NicksonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sNixon peaked in 2017.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nixon since 1910.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Nixon.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Nixon alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with NMost given first.