Onyx — #358 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Onyx

The Social Security Administration has registered 5,954 babies named Onyx between 1990 and 2024, spanning 35 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Onyx currently holds the #358 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 1,077 babies received it in a single year. Onyx is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,627 additional births since 1918.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Onyx performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 4,149 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Onyx shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 529 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Florida and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Onyx in 44 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Onyx 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 5,954 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.