Sixto
Sixto was given to 12 boys in 2025, #7,122 among boys’ names; 1,761 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,370 Americans named Sixto and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (78% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 23 and 57.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sixto by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Sixto mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Sixto is “a male given name, equivalent to English Sixtus” Its etymology gives the sense “sixth” (sextus).
Derived from Latin Sextus, from Latin sextus (“sixth”).
/ˈsiɡsto/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Sixto?
#7,122 among boys’ names, 2025
Sixto fell from #6,620 in 2015 to #7,122 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 6.8 to 7.0 per million.
37 babies in 1994, the peak
Sixto peaked in 1994, when 37 boys were given it, #2,209 among boys’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 32% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #7,122 | 7.0 |
| 2024 | 16 | #5,857 | 9.3 |
| 2023 | 5 | #13,888 | 2.9 |
| 2022 | 9 | #8,879 | 5.2 |
| 2021 | 15 | #5,987 | 8.6 |
| 2020 | 16 | #5,655 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 6 | #11,929 | 3.3 |
| 2018 | 11 | #7,542 | 6.1 |
| 2017 | 10 | #8,053 | 5.4 |
| 2016 | 17 | #5,520 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (109)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #6,620 | 6.8 |
| 2014 | 14 | #6,258 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 17 | #5,356 | 9.0 |
| 2012 | 14 | #6,253 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 21 | #4,632 | 11.1 |
| 2010 | 18 | #5,213 | 9.4 |
| 2009 | 13 | #6,751 | 6.6 |
| 2008 | 18 | #5,217 | 8.8 |
| 2007 | 20 | #4,772 | 9.6 |
| 2006 | 30 | #3,513 | 14.6 |
| 2005 | 21 | #4,303 | 10.5 |
| 2004 | 15 | #5,447 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 20 | #4,251 | 10.1 |
| 2002 | 21 | #4,017 | 10.8 |
| 2001 | 30 | #3,046 | 15.4 |
| 2000 | 24 | #3,512 | 12.2 |
| 1999 | 24 | #3,352 | 12.5 |
| 1998 | 25 | #3,171 | 13.1 |
| 1997 | 15 | #4,416 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 21 | #3,379 | 11.1 |
| 1995 | 16 | #4,015 | 8.4 |
| 1994 | 37 | #2,209 | 19.2 |
| 1993 | 30 | #2,491 | 15.3 |
| 1992 | 21 | #3,195 | 10.5 |
| 1991 | 13 | #4,441 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 18 | #3,434 | 8.8 |
| 1989 | 22 | #2,876 | 11.0 |
| 1988 | 18 | #3,055 | 9.4 |
| 1987 | 19 | #2,816 | 10.2 |
| 1986 | 24 | #2,350 | 13.0 |
| 1985 | 19 | #2,695 | 10.3 |
| 1984 | 14 | #3,250 | 7.8 |
| 1983 | 23 | #2,264 | 12.8 |
| 1982 | 17 | #2,808 | 9.4 |
| 1981 | 28 | #1,983 | 15.6 |
| 1980 | 18 | #2,711 | 10.1 |
| 1979 | 28 | #1,936 | 16.3 |
| 1978 | 17 | #2,651 | 10.4 |
| 1977 | 24 | #2,058 | 14.6 |
| 1976 | 19 | #2,401 | 12.1 |
| 1975 | 28 | #1,776 | 17.9 |
| 1974 | 22 | #2,046 | 14.0 |
| 1973 | 22 | #1,973 | 14.1 |
| 1972 | 16 | #2,408 | 9.9 |
| 1971 | 18 | #2,267 | 10.2 |
| 1970 | 27 | #1,691 | 14.5 |
| 1969 | 23 | #1,759 | 12.9 |
| 1968 | 22 | #1,724 | 12.7 |
| 1967 | 16 | #2,019 | 9.2 |
| 1966 | 17 | #1,954 | 9.5 |
| 1965 | 26 | #1,550 | 14.0 |
| 1964 | 28 | #1,505 | 14.1 |
| 1963 | 26 | #1,576 | 12.8 |
| 1962 | 25 | #1,618 | 12.1 |
| 1961 | 15 | #2,223 | 7.1 |
| 1960 | 19 | #1,905 | 8.9 |
| 1959 | 12 | #2,514 | 5.6 |
| 1958 | 21 | #1,760 | 9.9 |
| 1957 | 24 | #1,664 | 11.1 |
| 1956 | 25 | #1,600 | 11.8 |
| 1955 | 18 | #1,898 | 8.7 |
| 1954 | 13 | #2,304 | 6.4 |
| 1953 | 16 | #2,029 | 8.1 |
| 1952 | 16 | #1,998 | 8.2 |
| 1951 | 9 | #2,826 | 4.8 |
| 1950 | 17 | #1,871 | 9.5 |
| 1949 | 11 | #2,436 | 6.2 |
| 1948 | 18 | #1,810 | 10.3 |
| 1947 | 13 | #2,239 | 7.1 |
| 1946 | 8 | #2,888 | 4.9 |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,116 | 8.9 |
| 1944 | 13 | #2,071 | 9.5 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,248 | 8.7 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,101 | 5.7 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,098 | 6.0 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,439 | 5.4 |
| 1938 | 8 | #2,839 | 7.2 |
| 1937 | 5 | #3,947 | 4.7 |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,432 | 9.6 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,597 | 5.8 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,243 | 11.6 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,589 | 6.1 |
| 1932 | 13 | #2,182 | 12.5 |
| 1931 | 6 | #3,703 | 5.8 |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,762 | 9.1 |
| 1929 | 13 | #2,306 | 12.1 |
| 1928 | 14 | #2,254 | 12.6 |
| 1927 | 10 | #2,884 | 8.9 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,124 | 5.4 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,131 | 5.4 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,276 | 5.3 |
| 1923 | 5 | #4,796 | 4.6 |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,468 | 11.9 |
| 1921 | 11 | #2,779 | 10.0 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,109 | 6.1 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,329 | 7.9 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,173 | 8.6 |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,709 | 11.2 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,314 | 5.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Sixto a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sixto has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 109 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sixto: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sixto, and how old are they?
1,370 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 78% of the 1,761 Americans ever recorded as Sixto. The median Sixto alive today is 39 years old; half are between 23 and 57.
The 2020 Census counted 3,750 people named Sixto (11 women and girls, 3,739 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,369 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.7 times 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 | 29 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 228 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 303 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 323 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 323 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 160 |
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 Sixto born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 5 | #2,902 | 3.4× |
Where Sixto is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sixto is most over-represented in Texas: since 1915 it was given 3.4 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 Sixto with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Sixto
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 Sixto and names like it
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- The most given names of the 1990sSixto peaked in 1994.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sixto since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Sixto: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Sixto.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Sixto alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.