Dexter

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Primarily a boy's name · 100% boys

Meaning

Dexter is an English masculine given name. It is a transferred use of a surname derived from the Old English word deagestre, meaning โ€œdyer of cloth.โ€ Dexter is also a Latin term meaning skillful.

From Wikipedia

Dexter first appears in the data in 1996 and has been recorded in 23 different years as a boy's name. Its single biggest year was 2013 with 1,019 babies (rank #63 that year). It was not in the 2024 data. The name has been declining over the last five years.

Numerology of Dexter

In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Dexter yields these three numbers โ€” a playful read on the name's character.

9,198
Total babies (all years)
23
Years in the data
1,019
Peak in a single year

Popularity Over Time โ€” Boys

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all boys' names registered that year.

Year Babies Rank
199651#409
199739#487
199867#352
199958#389
200031#600
200152#416
200258#397
200375#366
200468#412
2005109#295
2006129#279
2007174#241
2008275#179
2009476#125
2010676#98
2011833#78
2012955#70
20131,019#63
2014908#73
2015850#79
2016831#83
2017788#86
2018676#95