Brixton

What Brixton means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Brixton yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note 349 US babies in 2025, but under 3 in England & Wales Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Brixton?

US: Rising: up from #983 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2021, when 531 boys got the name (#549 that year). First in the US records in 2001.

How common

• About 1 in 4,894 baby boys in the US in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in HI (1.71 per 1,000 boys), UT (1.27 per 1,000 boys), NE (0.68 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Brixton is #744 in the US. It is not in the England & Wales list for 2025.

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 96.1% of US babies named Brixton were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

Wiktionary only lists the UK pronunciation so far.

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Braxton2,131 US · 12 E&W
• Braxtyn82 US
• Brexton62 US
• Braxten48 US
• Brixtyn15 US
• Braxtin14 US
• Bryxton12 US
• Brextyn11 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Brixton

Boys

• Emerson#254Editor’s note Up from #300 in 2015 to #254 in 2025 in the US
• Beckham#168“homestead”^*
• Archer#98Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #289 in 2015, #98 in 2025
• Lennon#807“descendant of Lover (Leannán)”^*
• Nolan#65“descendant of Nuallán”^*
• Hudson#17Editor’s note Up from #65 in 2015 to #17 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 200 US boys in the 2025 records

For a sister

• Adley#805Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #805 vs #2,006 in 2025
• Evelyn#8Same root as Eileen, possibly meaning “radiance, beauty”^*
• Elliott#599“my God is Yahweh”^*
• Harlow#309Editor’s note Used for both: 85% of US babies named Harlow in 2025 were girls
• Kinsley#93“Royal (a man's name) + s + woodland clearing”^*
• Emery#74Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #74 vs #1,197 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under From a place name, From a surname, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Brixton’s. Rank is US 2025.