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Dixon

#3,144 in 2025Boys' name

Dick 1's son

Dixon has been given to 3,084 babies in the U.S. since 1881. In 2025 it ranked #3,144 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 75 recorded.

Babies named Dixon, 2025

1 in 87,200

Dixon over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dixon: meaning, origin, and history

Dick 1's son

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dixon means

Dixon means “Dick 1's son”.

Origin, language, and formation

Dixon is used in English.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Dixon is pronounced /ˈdɪksən/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,079 boys were recorded with the name Dixon between 1881 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 75 in 2014; its best national rank was #806 in 1881.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,120 in 2020 to #3,144 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,039 in 2015 to #3,144 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Dixon between 2016 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2016; its best national rank was #16,941 in 2016.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Dixon?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 87,200
38 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 44,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,144
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
60,472 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dixon sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 60,472 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dixon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dixons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dixon was born before 1987 — so the typical Dixon is around 38 today.

Median birth year
1987
About 38 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
20.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
38.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,244
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 20.2% of all recorded uses (623).

Is Dixon 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
−466
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,024
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,105
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.54×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
50.7%
Peak was 2014 (75)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#806
1881

Spellings of Dixon

Dixon is not the most common spelling — Don is, with 22.0% against Dixon's 0.40%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Dixon is used

Across 1910–2025, Dixon was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 368,577 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 100,000
  2. 2Utah1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4Florida1 in —
  5. 5Georgia1 in —
  6. 6Illinois1 in —
  7. 7Indiana1 in —
  8. 8North Carolina1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Dixon has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dixon around the world

Where Dixon 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.

  • England & Wales
    2003–2019
    #4,702
    in 2019
  • France
    1999–2024
    #3,352
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1993–2023
    #3,103
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1965–2010
    #754
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Dixon

People whose public names include Dixon, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Dixon by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,144
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,024
Best rank ever
#806
1881
Peak year
2014
75 that year
First recorded
1881
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,079
Count in 2025
38

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#16,941
2016
Peak year
2016
5 that year
First recorded
2016
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dixon

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

SaxonMaxonDaxonNixonJaxxonDixiePaxonDixxonMoxonBraxonNyxonHuxonBrixonRixonJaxonNixxonMaxxonLuxonKnixonLexonHixonBexonZaxonDix

Names with a curve like Dixon

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Dixon, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

ThompsonCliveBerkleyCollinsConleyMaconLindenVannLawtonLarkinHenriBaxter

Sibling names for Dixon

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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