Baxter
Baxter is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 40 births. Its best rank was 515th, in 1886.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 400.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 201474 births
- Best rank
- #515in 1886
- Since 1880
- 3,996people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,996 boys have been named Baxter in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2014, with 74 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1963, and the 2010s alone account for 15%. It has spent 37 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Baxter | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 88 | |
| 1890s | 76 | |
| 1900s | 84 | |
| 1910s | 319 | |
| 1920s | 418 | |
| 1930s | 342 | |
| 1940s | 296 | |
| 1950s | 286 | |
| 1960s | 205 | |
| 1970s | 125 | |
| 1980s | 172 | |
| 1990s | 382 | |
| 2000s | 413 | |
| 2010s | 610 | |
| 2020s | 180 |
In 2014, its biggest year
Baxter was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2014 were Noah, Liam, Mason, Jacob and William. See all of 2014.
Names that rose and fell with Baxter
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Anguspeak 2006
- Mosespeak 2016
- Pricepeak 2006
- Edgarpeak 2005
- Hoseapeak 1925
- Henrypeak 2024
- Orinpeak 1920
- Harleypeak 1994
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.