Onyx
#1,406 for girls in 2025, 155 births · #365 for boys in 2025, 881 births
Given to boys 79.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2023 · 1,079 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 6,849since 1990
Onyx over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,406 | 155 | #365 | 881 |
| 2024 | #1,242 | 187 | #358 | 931 |
| 2023 | #1,226 | 192 | #307 | 1,079 |
| 2022 | #1,350 | 173 | #352 | 937 |
| 2021 | #1,301 | 174 | #404 | 768 |
| 2020 | #1,743 | 115 | #612 | 447 |
| 2019 | #2,011 | 95 | #744 | 323 |
| 2018 | #2,361 | 77 | #857 | 257 |
| 2017 | #2,530 | 70 | #1,059 | 188 |
| 2016 | #2,902 | 58 | #1,116 | 175 |
| 2015 | #3,915 | 38 | #1,416 | 121 |
| 2014 | #3,486 | 45 | #1,670 | 92 |
| 2013 | #4,336 | 33 | #1,827 | 78 |
| 2012 | #4,601 | 31 | #1,818 | 81 |
| 2011 | #6,855 | 18 | #2,261 | 57 |
| 2010 | #5,977 | 22 | #2,212 | 59 |
| 2009 | #5,709 | 24 | #2,203 | 60 |
| 2008 | #10,084 | 11 | #2,879 | 41 |
| 2007 | #5,526 | 25 | #3,444 | 31 |
| 2006 | #6,592 | 19 | #3,524 | 29 |
| 2005 | #8,883 | 12 | #4,326 | 20 |
| 2004 | #9,892 | 10 | #3,534 | 26 |
| 2003 | #8,505 | 12 | #4,616 | 17 |
| 2002 | #7,045 | 15 | #4,044 | 20 |
| 2001 | #6,067 | 18 | #4,890 | 15 |
| 2000 | #8,027 | 12 | #3,764 | 21 |
| 1999 | #11,385 | 7 | #7,139 | 8 |
| 1998 | #5,363 | 19 | #5,159 | 12 |
| 1997 | #7,283 | 12 | #3,877 | 17 |
| 1996 | #6,392 | 14 | #4,613 | 13 |
| 1995 | #6,257 | 14 | #5,501 | 10 |
| 1994 | #5,713 | 16 | #5,868 | 9 |
| 1993 | #5,673 | 16 | #4,227 | 14 |
| 1992 | #7,512 | 11 | #7,422 | 6 |
| 1991 | #11,509 | 6 | — | |
| 1990 | #8,501 | 9 | #7,178 | 6 |
| 1989 | #8,761 | 8 | — | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Onyx! It came in at #7,178, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1991, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Onyx
- 7 spots since 2024 (#358 → #365)
- 247 spots since 2020 (#612 → #365)
- 1,051 spots since 2015 (#1,416 → #365)
- Biggest jump: 208 spots in 2021 (#612 → #404)
- Biggest drop: 51 spots in 2024 (#307 → #358)
- Debuted 1990
- Peaked 2023 at #307 (1,079 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 8 yrs · run 2018–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,585 boys born in 2023 were named Onyx (0.06%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,939 boys born in 2025 (0.05%)
- 73.6% of all boys named Onyx (5,043) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2001, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 95 | #3,877 (1997) | #5,665 |
| 2000s | 280 | #2,203 (2009) | #3,722 |
| 2010s | 1,431 | #744 (2019) | #1,498 |
| 2020s | 5,043 | #307 (2023) | #400 |
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.
Onyx 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 39,697 of them was named Onyx, which outranked 81.9% 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).
- #3,425Yasmina46
- #3,425Zamira46
- #3,425Zaylie46
- #3,486Onyx45
- #3,486Abigael45
- #3,486Adelyne45
- #3,486Ailey45
- #3,549Auburn44
- #3,549Avyanna44
- #3,549Azra44
Tied with 62 names at #3,486; 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 20,879 of them was named Onyx, which outranked 88.1% 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).
- #1,657Shia93
- #1,657Watson93
- #1,657Wolfgang93
- #1,670Onyx92
- #1,670Akeem92
- #1,670Banks92
- #1,670Benito92
- #1,679Adiel91
- #1,679Aryeh91
- #1,679Demari91
Tied with 8 names at #1,670; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.