girls:
322 births since 2006
#5394 (6th percentile)
boys:
6.9k births since 1917
#1416 (69th percentile)
overall:
7.2k births since 1917
#3173 (59th percentile)
The name Nixon is the #3,173 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 7,219 recorded births since 1917. This represents the 59.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 59.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,416 (69.1% percentile) for all time with 6,897 births since 1917. For girls, it ranks #5,394 (5.6% percentile) for all time with 322 births since 2006.
Nixon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1917 (1917 for boys and 2006 for girls). Birth data for Nixon is available in 65 out of the 107 years between 1917 and 2023 (65 years for boys and 18 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Nixon has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 95.5% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 93.5% of babies named Nixon were boys.
For boys, Nixon reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 51.1% percentile (ranked #447) with 307 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 307 births per million (ranked 51.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Nixon ranks #657 for boys (27.9% percentile) with 143 births per million, which is 46.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Nixon reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 3.2% percentile (ranked #915) with 19 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 19 births per million (ranked 3.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Nixon ranks #934 for girls (1.4% percentile) with 10 births per million, which is 53.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nixon".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Nixon is pronounced as NIHK-suhn, which has 2 syllables.
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