Meaning not yet researched.
Nixon: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 206 in 2025. Its best rank was #482 in 2017.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #482 in 2017; #1,061 in 2025. About 96% of babies named Nixon in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,061 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2017, at #482.
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Nixon: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 206 boys in 2025. Peak: #482 in 2017 · most boys in one year: 607 (2017).
In 2025, 206 US boys were named Nixon, making it the 1,061st most common boys’ name of the year, down 194 places from #867 in 2024. That is 73 fewer than the 279 boys named Nixon in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #482, reached in 2017. That year also had the most boys given the name: 607. For comparison, it was #513 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nixon in 67 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1917 with 6 babies. In all, 7,728 US babies have been given the name, 4.4% of them girls and 96% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 4,681 babies named Nixon.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,119 US boys were named Nixon; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 607. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,292 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Nixon ranked highest in Utah in 2025, at #243 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Nyxon, Nixen and Nixson are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Nyxon (125), Nixen (84), Nixson (65), Nixin (31), Nikson (18), Nicson (6), Nixyn (6).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Nixon in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 40 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 22 | #243 | #75 |
| Idaho | 7 | #364 | #426 |
| Nevada | 6 | #496 | #380 |
| California | 55 | #556 | #317 |
| Kansas | 5 | #668 | #650 |
| Arizona | 8 | #757 | #248 |
| Colorado | 5 | #925 | #870 |
| North Carolina | 8 | #1,001 | #612 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,108 | #683 |
| Texas | 18 | #1,203 | #741 |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,321 | #891 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,645 | 206 | #1,061 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,874 | 279 | #867 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,601 | 264 | #883 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,931 | 354 | #733 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,901 | 384 | #693 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,850 | 411 | #651 |
| 2019 | 35 | #4,135 | 471 | #589 |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,288 | 573 | #500 |
| 2017 | 31 | #4,557 | 607 | #482 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,244 | 570 | #519 |
| 2015 | 20 | #6,401 | 560 | #513 |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,939 | 470 | #587 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,949 | 433 | #588 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,562 | 365 | #653 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,698 | 226 | #900 |
| 2010 | 13 | #9,106 | 188 | #1,035 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,349 | 154 | #1,180 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,976 | 119 | #1,421 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,587 | 78 | #1,857 |
| 2006 | 8 | #13,292 | 74 | #1,850 |
| 2005 | — | — | 57 | #2,158 |
| 2004 | — | — | 47 | #2,406 |
| 2003 | — | — | 29 | #3,250 |
| 2002 | — | — | 22 | #3,878 |
| 2001 | — | — | 22 | #3,810 |
| 2000 | — | — | 25 | #3,391 |
| 1999 | — | — | 18 | #4,109 |
| 1998 | — | — | 24 | #3,264 |
| 1997 | — | — | 25 | #3,039 |
| 1996 | — | — | 26 | #2,887 |
| 1995 | — | — | 18 | #3,662 |
| 1994 | — | — | 17 | #3,855 |
| 1993 | — | — | 15 | #4,169 |
| 1992 | — | — | 8 | #6,516 |
| 1991 | — | — | 17 | #3,581 |
| 1990 | — | — | 6 | #7,829 |
| 1989 | — | — | 14 | #3,957 |
| 1988 | — | — | 10 | #4,680 |
| 1987 | — | — | 6 | #6,718 |
| 1986 | — | — | 7 | #5,753 |
| 1985 | — | — | 7 | #5,581 |
| 1984 | — | — | 6 | #6,104 |
| 1983 | — | — | 9 | #4,387 |
| 1982 | — | — | 8 | #4,876 |
| 1981 | — | — | 7 | #5,322 |
| 1980 | — | — | 5 | #6,979 |
| 1973 | — | — | 5 | #5,646 |
| 1970 | — | — | 7 | #4,114 |
| 1969 | — | — | 10 | #3,004 |
| 1961 | — | — | 5 | #4,475 |
| 1960 | — | — | 12 | #2,502 |
| 1959 | — | — | 8 | #3,206 |
| 1955 | — | — | 9 | #2,914 |
| 1953 | — | — | 10 | #2,663 |
| 1944 | — | — | 7 | #3,044 |
| 1942 | — | — | 6 | #3,452 |
| 1940 | — | — | 6 | #3,362 |
| 1939 | — | — | 9 | #2,569 |
| 1938 | — | — | 5 | #3,886 |
| 1934 | — | — | 6 | #3,564 |
| 1928 | — | — | 6 | #4,015 |
| 1925 | — | — | 6 | #4,061 |
| 1924 | — | — | 7 | #3,745 |
| 1922 | — | — | 6 | #4,174 |
| 1920 | — | — | 7 | #3,720 |
| 1918 | — | — | 5 | #4,616 |
| 1917 | — | — | 6 | #3,852 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).