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
- Peak · boys
- 2017 · 607 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 7,389since 1917
Nixon over time
Rank among boys' names. Nixon has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,917 | 8 | #1,060 | 206 |
| 2024 | #10,271 | 9 | #866 | 279 |
| 2023 | #6,409 | 18 | #882 | 264 |
| 2022 | #7,631 | 14 | #733 | 354 |
| 2021 | #6,691 | 17 | #692 | 384 |
| 2020 | #6,629 | 17 | #650 | 411 |
| 2019 | #4,072 | 35 | #588 | 471 |
| 2018 | #5,152 | 25 | #500 | 573 |
| 2017 | #4,477 | 31 | #482 | 607 |
| 2016 | #5,130 | 26 | #519 | 570 |
| 2015 | #6,236 | 20 | #512 | 560 |
| 2014 | #5,797 | 22 | #587 | 470 |
| 2013 | #6,729 | 18 | #586 | 433 |
| 2012 | #9,109 | 12 | #652 | 365 |
| 2011 | #7,436 | 16 | #900 | 226 |
| 2010 | #8,701 | 13 | #1,031 | 188 |
| 2009 | #8,058 | 15 | #1,173 | 154 |
| 2008 | #13,832 | 7 | #1,414 | 119 |
| 2007 | #12,676 | 8 | #1,848 | 78 |
| 2006 | #12,420 | 8 | #1,840 | 74 |
| 2005 | — | #2,129 | 57 | |
| 2004 | — | #2,376 | 47 | |
| 2003 | — | #3,186 | 29 | |
| 2002 | — | #3,794 | 22 | |
| 2001 | — | #3,721 | 22 | |
| 2000 | — | #3,299 | 25 | |
| 1999 | — | #3,986 | 18 | |
| 1998 | — | #3,191 | 24 | |
| 1997 | — | #2,981 | 25 | |
| 1996 | — | #2,838 | 26 | |
| 1995 | — | #3,559 | 18 | |
| 1994 | — | #3,751 | 17 | |
| 1993 | — | #4,020 | 15 | |
| 1992 | — | #6,128 | 8 | |
| 1991 | — | #3,462 | 17 | |
| 1990 | — | #7,178 | 6 | |
| 1989 | — | #3,809 | 14 | |
| 1988 | — | #4,450 | 10 | |
| 1987 | — | #6,089 | 6 | |
| 1986 | — | #5,332 | 7 | |
| 1985 | — | #5,147 | 7 | |
| 1984 | — | #5,561 | 6 | |
| 1983 | — | #4,141 | 9 | |
| 1982 | — | #4,593 | 8 | |
| 1981 | — | #4,961 | 7 | |
| 1980 | — | #6,250 | 5 | |
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| 1973 | — | #5,101 | 5 | |
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| 1970 | — | #3,836 | 7 | |
| 1969 | — | #2,861 | 10 | |
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| 1961 | — | #4,065 | 5 | |
| 1960 | — | #2,423 | 12 | |
| 1959 | — | #3,037 | 8 | |
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| 1955 | — | #2,764 | 9 | |
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| 1953 | — | #2,531 | 10 | |
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| 1944 | — | #2,862 | 7 | |
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| 1942 | — | #3,212 | 6 | |
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| 1940 | — | #3,130 | 6 | |
| 1939 | — | #2,449 | 9 | |
| 1938 | — | #3,534 | 5 | |
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| 1934 | — | #3,277 | 6 | |
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| 1928 | — | #3,697 | 6 | |
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| 1925 | — | #3,741 | 6 | |
| 1924 | — | #3,505 | 7 | |
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| 1922 | — | #3,872 | 6 | |
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| 1920 | — | #3,489 | 7 | |
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| 1918 | — | #4,179 | 5 | |
| 1917 | — | #3,545 | 6 | |
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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.
Where Nixon is popular in 2011
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Utah#135 · 1 in 486
- Hawaii#270 · 1 in 960
- Arizona#378 · 1 in 2,157
- Oklahoma#525 · 1 in 2,906
- California#571 · 1 in 4,607
Best ever in a state: #62 in Hawaii, 2017.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | #135 | 44 | 1 in 486 |
| Hawaii | #270 | 5 | 1 in 960 |
| Arizona | #378 | 17 | 1 in 2,157 |
| Oklahoma | #525 | 7 | 1 in 2,906 |
| California | #571 | 50 | 1 in 4,607 |
| Wisconsin | #575 | 7 | 1 in 3,905 |
| Virginia | #827 | 6 | 1 in 6,883 |
| Texas | #1,027 | 17 | 1 in 10,296 |
| Illinois | #1,343 | 5 | 1 in 13,553 |
| New York | #1,785 | 5 | 1 in 20,887 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Nixon
- 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)
- Debuted 1917
- Peaked 2017 at #482 (607 births)
- Births halved by 2023, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 14 yrs · run 2011–2024
- 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%)
- 60.4% of all boys named Nixon (4,463) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 11 | #3,545 (1917) | #3,862 |
| 1920s | 32 | #3,489 (1920) | #3,661 |
| 1930s | 20 | #2,449 (1939) | #3,087 |
| 1940s | 19 | #2,862 (1944) | #3,068 |
| 1950s | 27 | #2,531 (1953) | #2,777 |
| 1960s | 27 | #2,423 (1960) | #3,116 |
| 1970s | 12 | #3,836 (1970) | #4,469 |
| 1980s | 79 | #3,809 (1989) | #5,033 |
| 1990s | 174 | #2,838 (1996) | #4,109 |
| 2000s | 627 | #1,173 (2009) | #2,478 |
| 2010s | 4,463 | #482 (2017) | #636 |
| 2020s | 1,898 | #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 2011
Top girls' names in 2011
Top boys' names in 2011
More about 2011
girls
1,759,066 girls got a published name in 2011; 1 in 109,942 of them was named Nixon, which outranked 62.0% of the 19,590 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #7,118Zyan17
- #7,118Zyion17
- #7,118Zykia17
- #7,436Nixon16
- #7,436Aanika16
- #7,436Aasha16
- #7,436Aashritha16
- #7,783Abaigeal15
- #7,783Abigayl15
- #7,783Aby15
Tied with 346 names at #7,436; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,899,252 boys got a published name in 2011; 1 in 8,404 of them was named Nixon, which outranked 93.7% of the 14,360 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).