How Many People Are Named Nixon?

7,575

people named Nixon are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 45,120 people in the US has this name

Based on 7,728 babies named Nixon in Social Security records from 1917 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#2,910

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Boy Names

#1,125

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Peak Year

2017

638 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
4.5%
Male
95.6%

Of the babies given the name Nixon, 4.5% were girls and 95.6% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 1990s: 0% of the babies were girls then and 4.2% in the 2020s.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Nixon alive today is about 10 years old, and 97% are under 30. Half of them were between 5 and 12 in 2025.

Under 30 7,360
97.2%
30 to 59 172
2.3%
60 and over 43
0.6%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Nixon first appears in the records in 1917 and was given most often in 2017, to 638 babies. In 2025, 214 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1917 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Nixon has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #482, in 2017. In 2025 it ranked #1,061.

Boys
Rank in 2025#1,061
Best rank#482 (2017)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#597 in the 2010s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Nixon alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Nixon were born in California than in any other state: about 1,558 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Nixon was given 11.8 times as often in Utah, 8.9 times in Hawaii and 4.2 times in Idaho.

California 1,558
Utah 888
Texas 498
Arizona 403
Florida 248
New York 156
North Carolina 147
Ohio 135
Michigan 134
Hawaii 134
Idaho 124
Nevada 119
Virginia 104
Washington 97
Colorado 95
Pennsylvania 94
Oklahoma 92
Minnesota 86
Maryland 85
Illinois 78
Georgia 71
Louisiana 60
Missouri 56
Wisconsin 52
Indiana 51
Tennessee 50
Iowa 42
Nebraska 39
Oregon 35
Kansas 27
New Jersey 27
Alabama 23
South Carolina 22
Kentucky 20
Arkansas 20
South Dakota 10
West Virginia 6
North Dakota 6
Massachusetts 6
Wyoming 6
New Mexico 5

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