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The name Dixie peaked for boys at #782 in 1886. Dixie is occasionally used for girls in 2025.

The name Dixie is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "I have spoken; tenth".

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A sassy, spunky, punchy kind of name, Dixie can also be considered a place name, one that has become problematic because of its association with the antebellum South. The Dixie Chicks recently dropped Dixie from their band name because of its association with slavery and white privilege.


The name originated from the ten-dollar bills used in French-speaking New Orleans, which came to be called dixies, or else from the Mason-Dixon line. Dixie, which had been as high as Number 167 in the late 1930s, jumped back onto the popularity list in 2007 and has been on and off the bottom of the Top 1000, though we expect the negative associations to take it out of consideration as a baby name.

 Dixie Carter was a TV actress best known for playing Julia Sugarbaker in the sitcom Designing Women. Kings of Leon frontman Caleb Followill and model Lily Aldridge named their daughter Dixie Pearl in 2012. Dixie D'Amelio, older sister of dancer Charli, is a newly-minted Tik-Tok star.

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The name Dixie is currently ranked #1000 in U.S. births. and peaked for girls at #167 in 1938. It is currently rising in popularity. The name is most popular in DIXIE, DIXIE, and DIXIE. Dixie is occasionally used for boys in 1981.

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