as a First Name
Transferred use of the surname. Although this is now a male given name, the word that gave rise to the surname originally denoted a female dyer, from Old English dēag ‘dye’ + -estre, feminine ending of agent nouns. However, the distinction of gender was already lost in Middle English. The name coincides in form with Latin dexter ‘right-handed, auspicious’, and may sometimes have been chosen because of this.
| 1,279th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 18,446
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 22,664
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- Georgia
- has the most people named Dexter per capita
- 1968
- marked the height of its popularity
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99.99%
14%
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43%
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26%
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17%
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