Meaning not yet researched.
Onyx: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 881 in 2025. Its best rank was #307 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #307 in 2023; #365 in 2025. About 85% of babies named Onyx in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#365 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #307.
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Onyx: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 881 boys in 2025. Peak: #307 in 2023 · most boys in one year: 1,079 (2023).
In 2025, 881 US boys were named Onyx, making it the 365th most common boys’ name of the year, down 7 places from #358 in 2024. That is 50 fewer than the 931 boys named Onyx in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #307, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,079. For comparison, it was #1,426 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 155 US girls were named Onyx, making it the 1,410th most common girls’ name of the year, down 162 places from #1,248 in 2024. That is 32 fewer than the 187 girls named Onyx in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,228, reached in 2023. That year also had the most girls given the name: 192. For comparison, it was #3,967 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Onyx in 39 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1918 with 5 babies. In all, 8,632 US babies have been given the name, 21% of them girls and 79% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 6,039 babies named Onyx.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,986 US boys were named Onyx; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 1,079. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,939 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Onyx ranked highest in Nevada in 2025, at #198 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Onix, Onnix and Onnyx are summarised on this page.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Onix (383), Onnix (7), Onnyx (5).
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 Onyx 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 12 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nevada | 16 | #198 | — |
| South Carolina | 24 | #240 | — |
| Ohio | 52 | #243 | — |
| North Dakota | 5 | #254 | — |
| Oregon | 17 | #256 | — |
| Virginia | 34 | #257 | — |
| New Hampshire | 5 | #258 | — |
| Maryland | 21 | #263 | — |
| Georgia | 48 | #264 | — |
| Missouri | 25 | #278 | — |
| West Virginia | 7 | #285 | — |
| Michigan | 35 | #286 | — |
| Indiana | 28 | #289 | #991 |
| Wisconsin | 19 | #304 | — |
| Louisiana | 17 | #306 | — |
| Kentucky | 15 | #340 | — |
| Oklahoma | 14 | #346 | — |
| Florida | 56 | #353 | #1,645 |
| North Carolina | 33 | #354 | #1,264 |
| Colorado | 18 | #359 | — |
| Minnesota | 16 | #368 | — |
| Nebraska | 7 | #370 | — |
| Iowa | 9 | #393 | — |
| Tennessee | 21 | #396 | — |
| Illinois | 27 | #415 | — |
| Kansas | 9 | #421 | — |
| Massachusetts | 12 | #430 | — |
| Arkansas | 8 | #431 | — |
| Washington | 17 | #438 | — |
| Utah | 10 | #462 | — |
| California | 68 | #469 | #1,110 |
| New York | 36 | #470 | #1,444 |
| Connecticut | 6 | #478 | — |
| Mississippi | 6 | #507 | — |
| Texas | 66 | #510 | #1,732 |
| Pennsylvania | 18 | #542 | — |
| Arizona | 12 | #586 | — |
| Alabama | 6 | #741 | — |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,002 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 155 | #1,410 | 881 | #365 |
| 2024 | 187 | #1,248 | 931 | #358 |
| 2023 | 192 | #1,228 | 1,079 | #307 |
| 2022 | 173 | #1,352 | 937 | #352 |
| 2021 | 174 | #1,303 | 768 | #405 |
| 2020 | 115 | #1,748 | 447 | #613 |
| 2019 | 95 | #2,028 | 323 | #744 |
| 2018 | 77 | #2,379 | 257 | #858 |
| 2017 | 70 | #2,536 | 188 | #1,060 |
| 2016 | 58 | #2,929 | 175 | #1,118 |
| 2015 | 38 | #3,967 | 121 | #1,426 |
| 2014 | 45 | #3,528 | 92 | #1,677 |
| 2013 | 33 | #4,402 | 78 | #1,845 |
| 2012 | 31 | #4,684 | 81 | #1,829 |
| 2011 | 18 | #7,048 | 57 | #2,278 |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,128 | 59 | #2,230 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,850 | 60 | #2,222 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,620 | 41 | #2,925 |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,656 | 31 | #3,490 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,774 | 29 | #3,585 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,311 | 20 | #4,421 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,498 | 26 | #3,609 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,927 | 17 | #4,756 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,349 | 20 | #4,148 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,248 | 15 | #5,074 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,420 | 21 | #3,879 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,322 | 8 | #7,675 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,526 | 12 | #5,381 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,612 | 17 | #4,003 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,646 | 13 | #4,810 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,525 | 10 | #5,793 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,912 | 9 | #6,209 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,866 | 14 | #4,390 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,886 | 6 | #8,175 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,641 | — | — |
| 1990 | 9 | #9,014 | 6 | #7,841 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,394 | — | — |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,936 | — | — |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,394 | — | — |
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).