Dixie
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 224 babies a year in the US.
Dixie by the numbers
In 2025, 13 babies in England and Wales were named Dixie. In the US, 224 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in the US than in England and Wales.
Its American peak was 1,229 babies in 1938, so it is a 1930s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Dixie
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Dixie. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Divinedivine, goddess-like150 in the US (2017)
- Dianedivine; goddess of the hunt84 in the US (2017)
- Daisieday's eye flower; a form of Daisy42 in England and Wales (2025)
- Dionedaughter of heaven and earth; greek goddess12 in the US (2017)
- Doviebeloved; a form of dove or david10 in the US (2017)
- Daniea form of Daniel; God is my judge6 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Dixie
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