Dexter
2025 SSA
Below 5 births
About Dexter
The jazzy, ultra-cool Dexter, like most names with an "x," has a lot of energy and dynamism.
Dexter for boys#693 US
Over the years, it's been attached to a number of diverse real and fictional personalities—C. K. Dexter Haven, the witty Cary Grant character in The Philadelphia Story; Dexter Green, the protagonist of the F. Scott Fitzgerald story "Winter Dreams"; great jazz tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon; the boy-genius protagonist of cartoon Dexter's Laboratory; and the most recent TV series Dexter based on the books by Jeff Lindsay, whose lead happens to be a genial but sociopathic serial killer.
Dexter was chosen by hip musical couple Diana Krall and Elvis Costello for one of their twin boys, and by singer Charlotte Church.
Dex is an equally appealing nickname, now sometimes used on its own.
Dexter for girls
Dexter turned ultracool for a girl when Diane Keaton named her daughter Dexter Dean. Dexter is getting a new style gloss for both genders thanks to (unlikely) baby name role model, television's Dexter the genial serial killer.
Pronounced DEK-stur.
As of October 2026, Dexter ranked #693 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #262 in 1968, Nameberry popularity #409.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · boys | Births · boys | US rank · girls | Births · girls |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #396 | 788 | — | 0 |
| 2015 | #412 | 755 | — | 0 |
| 2016 | #441 | 701 | — | 0 |
| 2017 | #447 | 686 | — | 0 |
| 2018 | #476 | 612 | — | 0 |
| 2019 | #465 | 638 | — | 0 |
| 2020 | #558 | 502 | — | 0 |
| 2021 | #531 | 553 | — | 0 |
| 2022 | #692 | 383 | — | 0 |
| 2023 | #701 | 379 | — | 0 |
| 2024 | #720 | 364 | — | 0 |
| 2025 | #693 | 393 | — | 0 |
World rankings
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Famous Dexters
- Dexter Lamar JacksonBoy
American NFL football player.
- Dexter Alexander DavisBoy
American NFL football player.
- Dexter Marquise McClusterBoy
American NFL football player.
- Dexter Anthony CarterBoy
American NFL player.
- Dexter Keith McCleonBoy
American NFL player.
- Dexter John BeanBoy
American NASCAR driver
- Dexter Keith GordonBoy
American saxophonist.
- Bryan Kieth "Dexter" HollandBoy
lead singer of American band The Offspring.
- Dexter VinesBoy
American comic book artist and inker.
- Dexter FletcherBoy
British actor.
- Dexter RobertsBoy
American country music singer.
- Dexter HortonBoy
founder of the first bank in Seattle.
- Dexter BlackstockBoy
English football player.
- Dexter BrownBoy
British painter.
- Dexter CurtisBoy
American inventor and politician.
- Dexter Scott KingBoy
son of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Dexter Henry Lorcan Costello (b. 2006)Boy
son of singers Elvis Costello and Diana Krall.
- Dexter Lloyd Henson (b. 2009)Boy
son of singer Charlotte Church.
- Dexter KeatonGirl
daughter of American actress Diane Keaton
Dexter in pop culture
- "Dexter's LaboratoryBoy
" animated TV series and its main character.
- Dexter MorganBoy
a serial killer and main character on the TV show "Dexter".
- C.K. Dexter HavenBoy
character in film The Philadelphia Story & High Society.
- DexterBoy
main character from David Nicholl's novel "One Day".
- Dexter JonesBoy
character in Sarah Dessen's novel, This Lullaby.
- Dexterous "Dexter" CharmingBoy
son of King Charming on TV show "Ever After High".
- Dexter Alvin "Dex" DizzneeBoy
character in "Keeper of the Lost Cities" by Shannon Messenger.
- Dexter HartmanBoy
character on British soap "EastEnders".
- Ramone "Ray" DexterBoy
one half of gunshark duo Sinister Dexter featured in the British comics anthology 2000 AD.
- DexterBoy
now known as Dex,Starr, a member of the Red Lantern Corps in the DC Comics universe.
- Dexter "Dex" BarringtonBoy
a character in The Country Bears.
- DexterBoy
young version of the protagonist in the Space Ace video game.
- Dexter DouglasBoy
the alter ego of the title character Freakazoid!
- Dexter CharmingBoy
character in "Ever After High".