Dex vs Dexton
American parents have registered 658 Dexes since 1880, against 514 Dextons. But in 2025 it was Dexton that was commoner, 30 babies to 20.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Dex Dexton
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 39 years in which either name was published, Dex for 27 years and Dexton for 12 years. The lead changed hands 17 times.
- 1952–2024 Dex ahead, apart from 3 short spells
14 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Dex | Dexton | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 658 | 514 |
| Most in one year | 43 | 35 |
| Babies in 2025 | 20 | 30 |
| Estimated living today | 650 | 510 |
| Median age today | 10 | 9 |
| Peak year | 2016 | 2015 |
| Best rank | 2,783rd boys | 3,231st boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 4,857th | 3,658th |
| First recorded | 1952 | 1985 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 658 | 0 / 514 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Dex and Dexton.