Onyx

Where Onyx comes from

Onyx hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1954
    Onyx Lorenzoni born
    Brazilian politician
  2. 1990
    First appearance
    #7,178 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 2002
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  4. 2023
    Peak, #307
    1,079 babies named Onyx — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Onyx Lorenzoni · Brazilian politician, born 1954

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.