Dixie
About Dixie
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.
Pronounced DIK-see.
As of October 2026, Dixie ranked #1605 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #167 in 1938.
Editor: Sophie Kihm
Sources: US popularity data is from the Social Security Administration. Meanings and origins are from Nameberry's name references.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #808 | 345 | 193.1 |
| 2015 | #941 | 288 | 161.3 |
| 2016 | #1,034 | 256 | 144.5 |
| 2017 | #1,116 | 226 | 130.9 |
| 2018 | #1,011 | 257 | 151.1 |
| 2019 | #996 | 259 | 154.3 |
| 2020 | #1,079 | 229 | 141.7 |
| 2021 | #1,063 | 237 | 144.4 |
| 2022 | #1,167 | 207 | 126.2 |
| 2023 | #1,208 | 197 | 122.8 |
| 2024 | #1,565 | 135 | 83.3 |
| 2025 | #1,605 | 130 | 80.9 |
World rankings
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Dixie on lists
Famous Dixies
- Dixie Virginia Carter
American actress
- Dixie Carter
American pro wrestling promoter
- Dixie Lucile Reiniger Willson
American children's author
- Dixie Isabel Willis
Australian Olympic distance runner
- Dixie Browning
American romance novelist
- Dixie Bibb Graves
US Senator from Alabama
- Dixie Annie Haygood
American magician
- Dixie Selden
American painter
- Dixie Tan(
Lee Mo Chun), Singaporean cardiologist and politician
- Dixie Nann Griffith
daughter of actor Andy Griffith
- Dixie Mooney (b. 2000)
daughter of late drummer Tim Mooney of Sun Kil Moon
- Dixie Pearl Followill (b. 2012)
daughter of supermodel Lily Aldridge and musician Caleb Followill
- Dixie D'Amelio
TikTok star
Dixie in pop culture
- Dixie Cooney
Martin, character on American soap "All My Children"
- Kathleen "Dixie" Dixon
paramedic on British TV series "Casualty"
- Dixie
taxi driver on TV's "Pee,wee's Playhouse"
- Dixie
male mouse in animated series "Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks"
- Dixie Kong
monkey in the Donkey Kong video game series
- Dixie McCall
nurse on TV's "Emergency!"
- Dixie Clemets
character in the Rumble Roses video game series
- "Because of Winn
Dixie," children's book and movie about a dog named Winn,Dixie
- Winn
Dixie, U.S. grocery store chain
- "Hart of Dixie
" TV series
- The Dixie Chicks
country music band
- "Dixie
" a war hymn during the Civil War, and has since represented the Confederate legacy and southern identity more than any other song
- Dixie Sinclair
character in series “Insatiable”
- Dixie Bennings
character in TV series "9-1-1: Nashville"