Dixie
Dixie is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 135 births. Its best rank was 167th, in 1938.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1350.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 19381,229 births
- Best rank
- #167in 1938
- Since 1880
- 44,489people given the name
The story in the numbers
44,489 girls have been named Dixie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1938, with 1,229 births — 0.11% of all girls recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1946, and the 1940s alone account for 22%. It has spent 111 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Dixie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 240 | |
| 1890s | 374 | |
| 1900s | 592 | |
| 1910s | 1,979 | |
| 1920s | 3,498 | |
| 1930s | 8,837 | |
| 1940s | 9,912 | |
| 1950s | 6,769 | |
| 1960s | 2,796 | |
| 1970s | 1,689 | |
| 1980s | 1,175 | |
| 1990s | 995 | |
| 2000s | 1,799 | |
| 2010s | 2,829 | |
| 2020s | 1,005 |
In 1938, its biggest year
Dixie was the 167th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1938 were Mary, Barbara, Patricia, Betty and Shirley. See all of 1938.
Names that rose and fell with Dixie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Sallypeak 1947
- Robertapeak 1953
- Peggiepeak 1948
- Maryloupeak 1942
- Neldapeak 1938
- Arlenepeak 1934
- Barbarapeak 1947
- Shirlypeak 1936
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.