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 2014
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Utah#80 · 1 in 326
- Hawaii#91 · 1 in 315
- Nevada#237 · 1 in 900
- Arizona#262 · 1 in 1,074
- Idaho#318 · 1 in 1,191
Best ever in a state: #62 in Hawaii, 2017.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | #80 | 66 | 1 in 326 |
| Hawaii | #91 | 15 | 1 in 315 |
| Nevada | #237 | 15 | 1 in 900 |
| Arizona | #262 | 35 | 1 in 1,074 |
| Idaho | #318 | 7 | 1 in 1,191 |
| California | #360 | 108 | 1 in 2,142 |
| Maryland | #403 | 12 | 1 in 2,352 |
| Nebraska | #434 | 5 | 1 in 2,074 |
| Kansas | #451 | 7 | 1 in 2,259 |
| Arkansas | #456 | 6 | 1 in 2,433 |
| Oregon | #497 | 7 | 1 in 2,621 |
| North Carolina | #614 | 12 | 1 in 4,309 |
| Washington | #617 | 10 | 1 in 3,631 |
| Louisiana | #638 | 7 | 1 in 3,601 |
| Minnesota | #649 | 6 | 1 in 4,669 |
| Michigan | #692 | 10 | 1 in 4,886 |
| Colorado | #697 | 6 | 1 in 4,549 |
| Florida | #734 | 18 | 1 in 5,334 |
| Texas | #795 | 28 | 1 in 6,662 |
| New Jersey | #856 | 6 | 1 in 6,990 |
| Virginia | #861 | 6 | 1 in 7,052 |
| Indiana | #873 | 5 | 1 in 7,230 |
| Ohio | #896 | 8 | 1 in 7,536 |
| Illinois | #983 | 8 | 1 in 8,301 |
| New York | #1,195 | 9 | 1 in 11,415 |
| Georgia | #1,203 | 5 | 1 in 11,003 |
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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 2014
Top girls' names in 2014
Top boys' names in 2014
More about 2014
girls
1,786,355 girls got a published name in 2014; 1 in 81,198 of them was named Nixon, which outranked 69.9% of the 19,232 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,625Zarya23
- #5,625Zeena23
- #5,625Zulay23
- #5,797Nixon22
- #5,797Abria22
- #5,797Adaliz22
- #5,797Adelin22
- #5,993Aahna21
- #5,993Adaley21
- #5,993Aidan21
Tied with 195 names at #5,797; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 3,632Aranza#4,243 → #611
- ↑ 576Montserrat#1,148 → #572
- ↑ 573Monserrat#1,165 → #592
- ↑ 463Maisie#1,116 → #653
- ↑ 419Ariadne#1,220 → #801
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,920,871 boys got a published name in 2014; 1 in 4,087 of them was named Nixon, which outranked 95.8% of the 14,081 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.