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Rexford

#4,672 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Rexford has been given to 2,648 babies in the U.S. since 1891. In 2025 it ranked #4,672 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1925, with 53 recorded.

Babies named Rexford, 2025

1 in 151,000

Rexford over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rexford: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rexford means

Rexford is a given name.

The naming story behind Rexford

Wikidata records Rexford as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q57499292, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,648 boys were recorded with the name Rexford between 1891 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 53 in 1925; its best national rank was #839 in 1897.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,115 in 2020 to #4,672 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,680 in 2015 to #4,672 in 2025.

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.

How common is Rexford?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 151,000
22 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 77,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,672
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
104,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rexford 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 104,451 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rexford. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rexfords were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rexford was born before 1946 — so the typical Rexford is around 79 today.

Median birth year
1946
About 79 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
14.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
12.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,227
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 14.3% of all recorded uses (378).

Is Rexford 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
+532
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−557
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,008
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.38×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
41.5%
Peak was 1925 (53)
Years since peak
100
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#839
1897

Spellings of Rexford

Rexford is not the most common spelling — Rayford is, with 38.8% against Rexford's 18.6%.

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 Rexford is used

Across 1910–2025, Rexford was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 202,596 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kentucky1 in 100,000
  2. 2New York1 in 100,000
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  4. 4West Virginia1 in 100,000
  5. 5California1 in —
  6. 6Michigan1 in —
  7. 7North Carolina1 in —
  8. 8Ohio1 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. Rexford has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rexford around the world

Where Rexford 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
    2015–2025
    #3,684
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Notable people named Rexford

People whose public names include Rexford, 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.

Rexford by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,672
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 557
Best rank ever
#839
1897
Peak year
1925
53 that year
First recorded
1891
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,648
Count in 2025
22

Names similar to Rexford

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

RayfordRadfordStaffordRextonCrawfordWilfordAshfordSanfordWinfordStanfordManfordGiffordBedfordGilfordMelfordRockfordGaylordBufordWoodfordMilfordLenordLinfordRedfordHartford

Names with a curve like Rexford

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

FarrisEnnisIvyFrazierSandersGodfreyMalvinLlewellynHurleyOlanRudolfGarvin

Sibling names for Rexford

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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