Gender-neutral · #365 in 2025

Onyx

Onyx: popularity and trends since 1880

Rank
#365
Born 2025
881
Peak year
2023

Popularity, 1880–2025

per 100,000 boys born

Onyx per 100,000 boys born, by year. Peak: 2023. Gaps are years with fewer than five births, which SSA does not publish. Source: SSA, 1880–2025.

Recent trend

Onyx has been rising: its share of boys born has grown over the last 10 years. It now stands at 82% of its 2023 peak.

Boy or girl?

Over the last 10 years, 18% of children named Onyx were recorded as girls and 82% as boys. The file records sex, not a name's gender, and the share is measured over ten years rather than all time, so a name that has changed sides shows where it is now.

Sounds good with

Names of the other sex that are about as common right now, so two siblings' names do not sound a generation apart.