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Dixie

Pronounced /ˈdɪksi/

Rank in 2024
#1,572
Born in 2024
135
Peak year
1938 · #167
Origin
Not recorded

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 135 girls were named Dixie, about 1 in every 11,950.
  • It peaked in 1938 with 1,229 babies, ranked #167.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 44,489 girls have been named Dixie since 1880.

Who else has this name

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

  1. 0.3
    Greatest
  2. 0.8
    Silent
  3. 0.3
    Boomers
  4. 0.1
    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
  6. 0.1
    Gen Z
  7. 0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 5,270 babies, 0.26 per 1,000. Silent: 15,731 babies, 0.76 per 1,000. Boomers: 12,402 babies, 0.35 per 1,000. Gen X: 2,787 babies, 0.11 per 1,000. Millennials: 1,737 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Gen Z: 2,965 babies, 0.10 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 2,929 babies, 0.14 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

First attested in 1859. Unknown, 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).

  • (US) A female given name transferred from the place name.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/ˈdɪksi/

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