Nixon

#10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births · #1,060 for boys in 2025, 206 births
Given to boys 95.6% of the time

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Peak · boys
2017 · 607 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
7,389
since 1917

Nixon over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Nixon has never cracked the top 400 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202009peak #482, 2017boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#10,9178#1,060206
2024#10,2719#866279
2023#6,40918#882264
2022#7,63114#733354
2021#6,69117#692384
2020#6,62917#650411
2019#4,07235#588471
2018#5,15225#500573
2017#4,47731#482607
2016#5,13026#519570
2015#6,23620#512560
2014#5,79722#587470
2013#6,72918#586433
2012#9,10912#652365
2011#7,43616#900226
2010#8,70113#1,031188
2009#8,05815#1,173154
2008#13,8327#1,414119
2007#12,6768#1,84878
2006#12,4208#1,84074
2005#2,12957
2004#2,37647
2003#3,18629
2002#3,79422
2001#3,72122
2000#3,29925
1999#3,98618
1998#3,19124
1997#2,98125
1996#2,83826
1995#3,55918
1994#3,75117
1993#4,02015
1992#6,1288
1991#3,46217
1990#7,1786
1989#3,80914
1988#4,45010
1987#6,0896
1986#5,3327
1985#5,1477
1984#5,5616
1983#4,1419
1982#4,5938
1981#4,9617
1980#6,2505
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1973#5,1015
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1970#3,8367
1969#2,86110
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1961#4,0655
1960#2,42312
1959#3,0378
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1955#2,7649
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1953#2,53110
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1944#2,8627
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1942#3,2126
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1940#3,1306
1939#2,4499
1938#3,5345
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1934#3,2776
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1928#3,6976
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1925#3,7416
1924#3,5057
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1922#3,8726
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1920#3,4897
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1918#4,1795
1917#3,5456
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First appearance
1917

The first year at least five boys were named Nixon! It came in at #3,545, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1918–1919, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

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Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 194 spots since 2024 (#866#1,060)
  • 410 spots since 2020 (#650#1,060)
  • 548 spots since 2015 (#512#1,060)
  • Biggest jump: 248 spots in 2012 (#900#652)
  • Biggest drop: 194 spots in 2025 (#866#1,060)
Rise & fade · boys
100 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1917
  • Peaked 2017 at #482 (607 births)
  • Births halved by 2023, 6 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 14 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 14 yrs · run 2011–2024
Share of babies · boys
1 in 3,049
  • Highest: 1 in 3,049 boys born in 2017 were named Nixon (0.03%)
  • Latest: 1 in 8,292 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 60.4% of all boys named Nixon (4,463) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s11#3,545 (1917)#3,862
1920s32#3,489 (1920)#3,661
1930s20#2,449 (1939)#3,087
1940s19#2,862 (1944)#3,068
1950s27#2,531 (1953)#2,777
1960s27#2,423 (1960)#3,116
1970s12#3,836 (1970)#4,469
1980s79#3,809 (1989)#5,033
1990s174#2,838 (1996)#4,109
2000s627#1,173 (2009)#2,478
2010s4,463#482 (2017)#636
2020s1,898#650 (2020)#814

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Nixon in 2009

girls
#8,058
15 births · 1 in 122,474 girls
boys
#1,173
154 births · 1 in 12,880 boys

Top girls' names in 2009

  1. #1Isabella22,321
  2. #2Emma17,910
  3. #3Olivia17,444
  4. #4Sophia16,951
  5. #5Ava15,877
  6. #6Emily15,366
  7. #7Madison15,257
  8. #8Abigail14,401
  9. #9Chloe11,922
  10. #10Mia11,438
  11. #8,058Nixon15

Top boys' names in 2009

  1. #1Jacob21,204
  2. #2Ethan19,858
  3. #3Michael18,964
  4. #4Alexander18,254
  5. #5William17,937
  6. #6Joshua17,671
  7. #7Daniel17,564
  8. #8Jayden17,316
  9. #9Noah17,262
  10. #10Christopher16,368
  11. #1,173Nixon154
More about 2009

girls

1,837,114 girls got a published name in 2009; 1 in 122,474 of them was named Nixon, which outranked 60.1% of the 20,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Nixon
  1. #7,679Zeva16
  2. #7,679Zyairah16
  3. #7,679Zykia16
  4. #8,058Nixon15
  5. #8,058Aailyah15
  6. #8,058Aayushi15
  7. #8,058Abbiegail15
  8. #8,454Aarianna14
  9. #8,454Abagayle14
  10. #8,454Abigayl14

Tied with 395 names at #8,058; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2008
Risers
  1. 4,137Taraji#5,013#876
  2. 2,107Bristol#2,773#666
  3. 836Analia#1,167#331
  4. 773Harlow#1,677#904
  5. 610Maliah#1,405#795
Fallers
  1. 1,450Dayami#754#2,204
  2. 953Mareli#723#1,676
  3. 773Mylie#839#1,612
  4. 517Marely#334#851
  5. 515Hillary#722#1,237

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

boys

1,983,573 boys got a published name in 2009; 1 in 12,880 of them was named Nixon, which outranked 91.9% of the 14,540 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Nixon
  1. #1,169Guadalupe155
  2. #1,169Koby155
  3. #1,169Zeke155
  4. #1,173Nixon154
  5. #1,173Camdyn154
  6. #1,173Dandre154
  7. #1,173Elvin154
  8. #1,182Deshaun153
  9. #1,182Karim153
  10. #1,182Milan153

Tied with 8 names at #1,173; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2008
Risers
  1. 951Knox#1,655#704
  2. 510Kellan#1,133#623
  3. 462Jaxen#1,329#867
  4. 422Bentley#936#514
  5. 354Archer#1,037#683
Fallers
  1. 493Yurem#995#1,488
  2. 222Cordell#786#1,008
  3. 212Shamar#926#1,138
  4. 201Trevin#797#998
  5. 198Glenn#865#1,063

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2009