Dexter
Dexter is ranked 720th among boys in 2024 (364 births). Its best rank was 262nd, in 1968.
- Rank in 2024
- #720down 19 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 3640.02% of boys
- Peak year
- 2012842 births
- Best rank
- #262in 1968
- Since 1880
- 36,186people given the name
The story in the numbers
36,186 boys have been named Dexter in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2012, with 842 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 396 → 720).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1986, and the 2010s alone account for 20%. It has spent 138 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Dexter | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 75 | |
| 1890s | 65 | |
| 1900s | 87 | |
| 1910s | 511 | |
| 1920s | 856 | |
| 1930s | 820 | |
| 1940s | 1,456 | |
| 1950s | 3,484 | |
| 1960s | 4,902 | |
| 1970s | 3,869 | |
| 1980s | 4,290 | |
| 1990s | 3,862 | |
| 2000s | 2,576 | |
| 2010s | 7,152 | |
| 2020s | 2,181 |
In 2012, its biggest year
Dexter was the 361st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2012 were Jacob, Mason, Ethan, Noah and William. See all of 2012.
Names that rose and fell with Dexter
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Thorpeak 2015
- Baronpeak 2008
- Svenpeak 2015
- Kentonpeak 2014
- Thanepeak 2015
- Darispeak 1990
- Ginopeak 1992
- Clancypeak 2024
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.