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 | ||
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| 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.
Where Onyx is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Hawaii#198 · 1 in 571
- Nevada#224 · 1 in 790
- North Dakota#235 · 1 in 705
- Kansas#244 · 1 in 920
- Connecticut#278 · 1 in 1,270
Best ever in a state: #144 in North Dakota, 2022.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | #198 | 6 | 1 in 571 |
| Nevada | #224 | 15 | 1 in 790 |
| North Dakota | #235 | 5 | 1 in 705 |
| Kansas | #244 | 15 | 1 in 920 |
| Connecticut | #278 | 11 | 1 in 1,270 |
| Wisconsin | #285 | 20 | 1 in 1,216 |
| West Virginia | #292 | 6 | 1 in 1,170 |
| New Mexico | #297 | 7 | 1 in 1,003 |
| Indiana | #299 | 26 | 1 in 1,260 |
| Louisiana | #301 | 18 | 1 in 1,208 |
| Iowa | #304 | 12 | 1 in 1,171 |
| Florida | #308 | 62 | 1 in 1,496 |
| Oregon | #308 | 13 | 1 in 1,223 |
| Idaho | #310 | 7 | 1 in 1,145 |
| Maryland | #320 | 17 | 1 in 1,468 |
| Ohio | #326 | 35 | 1 in 1,549 |
| Virginia | #329 | 26 | 1 in 1,504 |
| Oklahoma | #346 | 13 | 1 in 1,381 |
| Kentucky | #354 | 12 | 1 in 1,654 |
| Massachusetts | #361 | 14 | 1 in 2,037 |
| Georgia | #375 | 29 | 1 in 1,737 |
| Pennsylvania | #376 | 29 | 1 in 1,912 |
| Colorado | #389 | 15 | 1 in 1,722 |
| Michigan | #406 | 21 | 1 in 2,046 |
| North Carolina | #413 | 25 | 1 in 2,041 |
| Tennessee | #417 | 18 | 1 in 1,991 |
| Illinois | #419 | 26 | 1 in 2,073 |
| Nebraska | #428 | 5 | 1 in 1,778 |
| California | #461 | 72 | 1 in 2,630 |
| Mississippi | #465 | 6 | 1 in 1,998 |
| Minnesota | #468 | 11 | 1 in 2,285 |
| Alabama | #480 | 10 | 1 in 2,202 |
| Washington | #491 | 14 | 1 in 2,386 |
| New York | #505 | 31 | 1 in 2,875 |
| New Jersey | #523 | 13 | 1 in 3,120 |
| South Carolina | #548 | 7 | 1 in 2,894 |
| Texas | #591 | 49 | 1 in 3,492 |
| Arizona | #596 | 10 | 1 in 3,262 |
| Utah | #609 | 6 | 1 in 3,200 |
| Missouri | #626 | 8 | 1 in 3,568 |
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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 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 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 9,430 of them was named Onyx, which outranked 92.6% 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).
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 2,278 of them was named Onyx, which outranked 97.1% 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).