Dixie: Meaning of Baby Name Dixie

Dixie Popularity Snapshot

Across the entire US Social Security Administration record (1880–2024), 44,489 baby girls have been named Dixie. The name peaked in 1938 with 1,229 US births that year (rank #167). In 2024, ranked #1565 nationally — 1,398 places below its 1938 peak.

Top States for Dixie

Based on 1910–2024 US SSA state-level records, the three states with the most Dixie births are: Texas (3,226), California (2,449), Missouri (2,212).

Other English-Origin Names Like Dixie

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5-Letter Names Starting with D

Names with Dixie's exact length and starting letter: Dabir, Dacey, Dacia, Dacio, Daena.

Quick Facts About Dixie

5,642

English baby names in our dictionary

2,251

English female names

220

5-letter D-names in our dictionary

491

D-female names total

2007–2019

years of US SSA records (10 total)

2,952

total US births named Dixie (all years)

US Popularity History (2007–2019)

📉 Falling fast: Dixie dropped 188 places in the US girls ranking over the last 5 years (#808 in 2014 → #996 in 2019).

Annual US births named Dixie by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2014 with 345 girls named Dixie (girl rank #808 that year).

Where it stands today: in 2019, ranked #996 for girls (259 US births). That's 188 places below its 2014 peak.

Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.

Where in the US Is Dixie Most Popular?

Average girl-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's girls-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Dixie the strongest states are West Virginia, Arkansas, Kentucky.

Strongest girls-name states

#	State	Avg rank	Births
1	West Virginia	#255	29
2	Arkansas	#406	55
3	Kentucky	#422	85
4	Oklahoma	#489	63
5	Kansas	#503	27
6	Utah	#551	60
7	Mississippi	#581	20
8	Louisiana	#600	34
9	Alabama	#631	55
10	Tennessee	#649	111

Weakest girls-name states

#	State	Avg rank	Births
1	Texas	#1,316	71
2	North Carolina	#933	56
3	Ohio	#858	101
4	Virginia	#844	34
5	Washington	#836	23
6	Michigan	#804	29
7	Wisconsin	#780	18
8	Indiana	#756	72
9	Missouri	#657	74
10	Tennessee	#649	111

Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Dixie in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.

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Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Dixie against today's most popular girls-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).

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