Dixon
Meaning
surname meaning 'son of Dick (Richard)'
Dixon's name family
One shared root links 7 names across 2 languages.
Shared root: from Germanic Ricohard, ric "power" + hard "brave, hardy"
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Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Dixon peaked in the 2010s and the 2020s in nearly equal measure.
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Popularity in Brazil
133 people · the #33,771 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 1,000,000 · median age 25
Among people named Dixon living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1990s than in any other decade.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
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