Dixielee
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Dixielee has been given to 36 babies in the U.S. since 1935. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1937, with 10 recorded.
Babies named Dixielee, 1943
1 in 353,000
Dixielee over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Dixielee?
Dixielee had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1943, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1943
- 1 in 353,000
- 8 of 2,822,499 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 174,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1943
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 244,552 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Dixielee sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1943 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 244,552 children born in 1943 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dixielee. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Dixielees were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Dixielee was born before 1938 — so the typical Dixielee is around 87 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1930s
- 77.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1930s — 77.8% of all recorded uses (28).
Is Dixielee rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1937 (10)
- Years since peak
- 88
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.3% average annual change
Dixielee around the world
Where Dixielee ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- South Australia1985–1985#671in 1985
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Dixielee by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Dixielee
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Dixielee
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.