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Xerxes: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 17 in 2025. Its best rank was #4,303 in 1975.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #4,303 in 1975; #5,593 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Xerxes in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,593 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1975, at #4,303.
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Xerxes: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 17 boys in 2025. Peak: #4,303 in 1975 · most boys in one year: 21 (2018).
In 2025, 17 US boys were named Xerxes, making it the 5,593rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 365 places from #5,228 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 19 boys named Xerxes in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #4,303, reached in 1975. The most boys given the name in a single year was 21, in 2018. For comparison, it was #5,979 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Xerxes in 28 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1974 with 6 babies. In all, 304 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 117 babies named Xerxes.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 152 US boys were named Xerxes; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 21. In 2025 that was about 1 in 100,475 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
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Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 17 | #5,593 |
| 2024 | — | — | 19 | #5,228 |
| 2023 | — | — | 16 | #5,903 |
| 2022 | — | — | 17 | #5,621 |
| 2021 | — | — | 14 | #6,323 |
| 2020 | — | — | 10 | #8,028 |
| 2019 | — | — | 11 | #7,615 |
| 2018 | — | — | 21 | #4,729 |
| 2017 | — | — | 14 | #6,317 |
| 2016 | — | — | 13 | #6,707 |
| 2015 | — | — | 15 | #5,979 |
| 2014 | — | — | 13 | #6,611 |
| 2013 | — | — | 8 | #9,625 |
| 2012 | — | — | 12 | #7,023 |
| 2010 | — | — | 10 | #8,105 |
| 2009 | — | — | 12 | #7,214 |
| 2008 | — | — | 8 | #9,837 |
| 2007 | — | — | 9 | #8,883 |
| 2002 | — | — | 8 | #8,425 |
| 2001 | — | — | 6 | #10,512 |
| 2000 | — | — | 5 | #12,071 |
| 1995 | — | — | 5 | #10,295 |
| 1993 | — | — | 5 | #10,124 |
| 1989 | — | — | 7 | #6,917 |
| 1987 | — | — | 5 | #8,122 |
| 1986 | — | — | 10 | #4,449 |
| 1975 | — | — | 8 | #4,303 |
| 1974 | — | — | 6 | #5,214 |
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).