Onix is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Onyx, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Onix: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 22 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,742 in 1966.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,742 in 1966; #4,661 in 2025. About 79% of babies named Onix in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,661 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1966, at #2,742.
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Onix: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 22 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,742 in 1966 · most boys in one year: 29 (2023).
In 2025, 22 US boys were named Onix, making it the 4,661st most common boys’ name of the year, up 728 places from #5,389 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 18 boys named Onix in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,742, reached in 1966. The most boys given the name in a single year was 29, in 2023. For comparison, it was #11,722 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 6 US girls were named Onix, making it the 14,482nd most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #14,482, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 6. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Onix in 37 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1956 with 7 babies. In all, 383 US babies have been given the name, 3.1% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 146 babies named Onix.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 179 US boys were named Onix; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 29. In 2025 that was about 1 in 77,640 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Onyx (8,632 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
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 Onix in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,482 | 22 | #4,661 |
| 2024 | — | — | 18 | #5,389 |
| 2023 | — | — | 29 | #3,858 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,863 | 27 | #4,064 |
| 2021 | — | — | 25 | #4,198 |
| 2020 | — | — | 13 | #6,538 |
| 2019 | — | — | 9 | #8,693 |
| 2018 | — | — | 11 | #7,484 |
| 2017 | — | — | 12 | #6,995 |
| 2016 | — | — | 13 | #6,623 |
| 2015 | — | — | 6 | #11,722 |
| 2014 | — | — | 11 | #7,412 |
| 2013 | — | — | 8 | #9,426 |
| 2012 | — | — | 10 | #7,975 |
| 2011 | — | — | 5 | #13,781 |
| 2010 | — | — | 8 | #9,443 |
| 2009 | — | — | 7 | #10,670 |
| 2007 | — | — | 10 | #8,011 |
| 2006 | — | — | 7 | #10,361 |
| 2005 | — | — | 9 | #8,122 |
| 2003 | — | — | 8 | #8,416 |
| 2002 | — | — | 5 | #11,975 |
| 2001 | — | — | 6 | #10,189 |
| 1999 | — | — | 6 | #9,559 |
| 1997 | — | — | 5 | #10,371 |
| 1996 | — | — | 10 | #5,857 |
| 1994 | — | — | 6 | #8,515 |
| 1993 | — | — | 6 | #8,394 |
| 1991 | — | — | 5 | #9,214 |
| 1985 | — | — | 5 | #7,298 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #6,992 |
| 1980 | — | — | 6 | #6,031 |
| 1979 | — | — | 9 | #4,308 |
| 1968 | — | — | 5 | #4,574 |
| 1967 | — | — | 7 | #3,461 |
| 1966 | — | — | 10 | #2,742 |
| 1956 | — | — | 7 | #3,443 |
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).