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Sixto

#7,122 in 2025Boys' name

Sixth

Sixto has been given to 1,761 babies in the U.S. since 1915. In 2025 it ranked #7,122 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1994, with 37 recorded.

Babies named Sixto, 2025

1 in 276,000

Sixto over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sixto: meaning, origin, and history

Sixth

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sixto means

Sixto means “sixth”, associated with sextus.

Origin, language, and formation

Sixto is used in Spanish.

Sixto comes through Latin Sextus and Latin sextus.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Sixto is pronounced /ˈsiɡsto/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,761 boys were recorded with the name Sixto between 1915 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 37 in 1994; its best national rank was #1,505 in 1964.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,655 in 2020 to #7,122 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,620 in 2015 to #7,122 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Sixto?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 142,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,122
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sixto 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sixto. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sixtos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sixto was born before 1978 — so the typical Sixto is around 47 today.

Median birth year
1978
About 47 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
12.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
22.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,457
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Choose a decade

1970s — 12.5% of all recorded uses (221).

Is Sixto 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
−1,265
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,467
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−502
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.92×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
32.4%
Peak was 1994 (37)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
43.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,505
1964

Spellings of Sixto

Sixto is not the most common spelling — Vito is, with 55.3% against Sixto's 6.5%.

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 Sixto is used

Across 1910–2025, Sixto was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 59,008 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).

13 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 33,333
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3New York1 in 100,000

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. Sixto has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sixto by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,122
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,467
Best rank ever
#1,505
1964
Peak year
1994
37 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,761
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Sixto

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

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Sibling names for Sixto

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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