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How popular is the name Dexter?
Births per year, rank history and how many Dexters are alive today.
Dexter (male) sits just outside the top 100 boys' names in England and Wales, ranked 154th in 2025 with 346 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2013, when 1,019 babies were given the name, the 63rd most popular that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 174 in 2023 before climbing back to the 154th place it holds today. Numbers have been falling in recent years. At least 11,000 babies have been named Dexter in England and Wales since 1996.
The Dexter you are most likely to meet is around 13 years old. Half of all Dexters born in England and Wales are between 8 and 15, and there are at least 12,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's roughly a 3.9% chance that at least one of them will be called Dexter.
How many babies are named Dexter each year?
Where does Dexter rank among boys' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Dexter most popular?
Dexter peaked in 2013, when 1,019 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Dexter?
At least 12,000 people named Dexter born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Dexter?
Most living Dexters are between 8 and 15; the most common age is about 13.
Is Dexter becoming more or less popular?
Declining: numbers have been falling in recent years.