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 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Utah#83 · 1 in 356
- Hawaii#127 · 1 in 381
- North Dakota#208 · 1 in 588
- Idaho#252 · 1 in 891
- Arizona#305 · 1 in 1,208
Best ever in a state: #62 in Hawaii, 2017.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | #83 | 54 | 1 in 356 |
| Hawaii | #127 | 9 | 1 in 381 |
| North Dakota | #208 | 6 | 1 in 588 |
| Idaho | #252 | 9 | 1 in 891 |
| Arizona | #305 | 27 | 1 in 1,208 |
| Nevada | #364 | 8 | 1 in 1,482 |
| Nebraska | #428 | 5 | 1 in 1,778 |
| Iowa | #456 | 7 | 1 in 2,008 |
| Oklahoma | #503 | 8 | 1 in 2,244 |
| California | #521 | 61 | 1 in 3,105 |
| Ohio | #602 | 15 | 1 in 3,614 |
| Maryland | #636 | 7 | 1 in 3,564 |
| Colorado | #645 | 7 | 1 in 3,689 |
| Michigan | #704 | 10 | 1 in 4,297 |
| Missouri | #756 | 6 | 1 in 4,757 |
| Pennsylvania | #781 | 10 | 1 in 5,546 |
| Texas | #794 | 31 | 1 in 5,520 |
| Washington | #797 | 7 | 1 in 4,771 |
| Minnesota | #803 | 5 | 1 in 5,028 |
| North Carolina | #929 | 8 | 1 in 6,379 |
| Illinois | #1,146 | 6 | 1 in 8,984 |
| Georgia | #1,158 | 6 | 1 in 8,395 |
| Florida | #1,313 | 8 | 1 in 11,595 |
| New York | #1,442 | 7 | 1 in 12,733 |
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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 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 96,521 of them was named Nixon, which outranked 62.1% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #6,414Zelina18
- #6,414Zhane18
- #6,414Zohra18
- #6,691Nixon17
- #6,691Abena17
- #6,691Adama17
- #6,691Adaora17
- #6,967Aairah16
- #6,967Aalyah16
- #6,967Aaron16
Tied with 275 names at #6,691; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 4,556 of them was named Nixon, which outranked 95.1% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.