Nixon
Nixon is ranked 873rd among boys in 2024 (275 births). Its best rank was 482nd, in 2017.
- Rank in 2024
- #873up 11 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 2750.02% of boys
- Peak year
- 2017607 births
- Best rank
- #482in 2017
- Since 1917
- 7,508people given the name
The story in the numbers
7,177 boys have been named Nixon in the United States since 1917, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2017, with 607 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 587 → 873).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2016, and the 2010s alone account for 62%. It has spent 14 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 331 girls have also been given it, 4.4% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Nixon | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 11 | |
| 1920s | 32 | |
| 1930s | 20 | |
| 1940s | 19 | |
| 1950s | 27 | |
| 1960s | 27 | |
| 1970s | 12 | |
| 1980s | 79 | |
| 1990s | 174 | |
| 2000s | 627 | |
| 2010s | 4,462 | |
| 2020s | 1,687 |
In 2017, its biggest year
Nixon was the 482nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2017 were Liam, Noah, William, James and Logan. See all of 2017.
Names that rose and fell with Nixon
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Tiberiuspeak 2015
- Graysenpeak 2016
- Easonpeak 2016
- Greysenpeak 2017
- Jaxynpeak 2016
- Rykerpeak 2018
- Vivaanpeak 2015
- Jaxsonpeak 2015
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.