Dexter
Recorded for both sexesMillennial2025 rank
#693
up +31 places
2025 births
393
up +29 births
All-time births
36,582
1% of them in 2025
More common than
99%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 2012
- 842 births
- Best rank
- #262
- in 1968
- First recorded
- 1880
- #842 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1983
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 142 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 2012842#361Peak
- 2014788#396
- 2013784#382
- 1968760#262
- 2015755#413
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #262 in 1968 · peak births 842 in 2012
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 99% boys■ 1% girls
36,582 boys · 218 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Dexter has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.