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Dexter

Pronounced /ˈdɛkstɚ/

Rank in 2024
#720
Born in 2024
364
Peak year
2012 · #362
Origin
Not recorded

1880 to 2024

Cooling
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 364 boys were named Dexter, about 1 in every 4,712.
  • It peaked in 2012 with 842 babies, ranked #362.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 36,186 boys have been named Dexter since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Dexter per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. <0.1
    Greatest
  2. <0.1
    Silent
  3. 0.2
    Boomers
  4. 0.3
    Gen X
  5. 0.2
    Millennials
  6. 0.2
    Gen Z
  7. 0.3
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 1,270 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Silent: 1,856 babies, 0.09 per 1,000. Boomers: 6,251 babies, 0.17 per 1,000. Gen X: 6,871 babies, 0.25 per 1,000. Millennials: 7,090 babies, 0.23 per 1,000. Gen Z: 5,563 babies, 0.18 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 7,145 babies, 0.33 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

Variant of Dyster. Also partially from Latin dexter (“right (handed)”).

  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/ˈdɛkstɚ/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Dexter, CC BY-SA 4.0.