Dexter Boy Name

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The name Dexter is of Latin origin, and means fortunate or on the right hand. The table below indicates the number of times the name Dexter has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Dexter**
Use of the Name Dexter for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
25,301	20,135	9,215	2,517	1,077	423	222

The table below indicates the number of times the name Dexter has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Dexter**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	843	6
1881	571	10
1882	583	11
1883	821	6
1884	581	11
1885	975	5
1886
1887	644	9
1888	662	10
1889	819	7
1890	827	7
1891	718	8
1892	985	6
1893	581	12
1894	804	8
1895	812	8
1896
1897	971	6
1898
1899
1900
1901	739	9
1902	809	9
1903
1904
1905	711	12
1906	767	11
1907	641	16
1908	963	9
1909	727	15
1910	943	12
1911	832	16
1912	818	29
1913	697	43
1914	804	43
1915	699	70
1916	727	69
1917	774	66
1918	739	76
1919	656	88
1920	685	87
1921	746	79
1922	631	105
1923	712	83
1924	985	51
1925	669	91
1926	642	96
1927	718	81
1928	657	91
1929	645	91
1930	654	89
1931	764	66
1932	628	90
1933	705	73
1934	700	75
1935	704	74
1936	736	67
1937	638	85
1938	587	100
1939	577	99
1940	572	108
1941	465	162
1942	518	141
1943	489	159
1944	500	144
1945	505	140
1946	517	154
1947	543	152
1948	542	151
1949	566	141
1950	478	194
1951	437	240
1952	432	266
1953	412	290
1954	396	328
1955	355	412
1956	370	397
1957	342	487
1958	355	464
1959	398	396
1960	379	435
1961	388	422
1962	378	455
1963	385	426
1964	384	426
1965	336	505
1966	363	431
1967	360	437
1968	262	760
1969	308	608
1970	295	693
1971	333	548
1972	353	482
1973	390	391
1974	408	365
1975	466	299
1976	477	275
1977	488	276
1978	486	278
1979	533	252
1980	533	261
1981	527	255
1982	579	220
1983	569	220
1984	462	334
1985	423	409
1986	334	585
1987	317	666
1988	335	641
1989	336	687
1990	376	613
1991	412	553
1992	473	452
1993	471	446
1994	548	356
1995	556	334
1996	584	308
1997	605	292
1998	618	296
1999	758	210
2000	756	221
2001	750	228
2002	814	205
2003	854	201
2004	795	222
Totals:		25,301		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Dexter as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Dexter appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 118 times during the last 125 years.

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