Dixie
About 45,373 American babies have been named Dixie since 1880, most of them around 1938. In 2025 it ranked 1,605th. About 26,000 Dixies are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 68.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Dixie boys named Dixie
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 45,373
- Estimated living today
- 26,000
- Median age today
- 68
- Peak year
- 1938
- Best rank
- 167th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,605th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 44,621 / 752
How old the living Dixies are
born that year still alive today
Of the 45,373 babies given the name since 1880, about 26,000 are alive — 57 in every hundred. Roughly 4,500 of them are children and 14,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1957 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a place name
., but may come from the Mason-Dixon line, the boundary between the northern states and the southern states, or from the slang term dixie for a Louisiana $10 bill (equivalent to English tenner), in turn from French dix (ten).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Dixies
- Dixie Carter (1939–2010)American actress
- Dixie Dean (1907–1980)English footballer
- Dixie D'Amelio (born 2001)American influencer
- Dixie Bibb Graves (1882–1965)social scientist and politician
- Dixie Lee (1909–1952)American actress, dancer, and singer
People named Dixie with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Dixie is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Dixie is most concentrated in Iowa (3.7×), Utah (3.3×), Kansas (3.2×), Wyoming (3.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1938
The most popular girls’ names the year Dixie peaked:
Dixie elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Dixie | 554 | 859th |
| France girls | Dixie | 20 | 7,280th |
| Scotland girls | Dixie | 18 | 603rd |
| England and Wales boys | Dixie | 4 | 3,848th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Dixie against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.