Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Dix

#21,023 most common boys' name of all time · #55,375 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1917–1943

Rank among boys
#21,023
Rank overall
#55,375 of 105,966
First appeared
1917
Years on the list
7 of 146
All-time
40
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1937 #3,123
Best rank
#3,123 1937
Girls Boys peak 7/yr
19201940

Dix first appears in 1917. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
1943 — 5 5 #3,889
1938 — 6 6 #3,462
1937 — 7 7 #3,123
1935 — 6 6 #3,564
1932 — 5 5 #4,143
1930 — 6 6 #3,914
1917 — 5 5 #4,449