Dixie

Latin, French
"I have spoken; tenth"

Dixie Origin and Meaning

The name Dixie is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "I have spoken; tenth".

A sassy, spunky, punchy kind of name, Dixie can also be considered a place name, one that has become problematic because of its association with the antebellum South. The Dixie Chicks recently dropped Dixie from their band name because of its association with slavery and white privilege.

The name originated from the ten-dollar bills used in French-speaking New Orleans, which came to be called dixies, or else from the Mason-Dixon line. Dixie, which had been as high as Number 167 in the late 1930s, jumped back onto the popularity list in 2007 and has been on and off the bottom of the Top 1000, though we expect the negative associations to take it out of consideration as a baby name.

Dixie Carter was a TV actress best known for playing Julia Sugarbaker in the sitcom Designing Women. Kings of Leon frontman Caleb Followill and model Lily Aldridge named their daughter Dixie Pearl in 2012. Dixie D'Amelio, older sister of dancer Charli, is a newly-minted Tik-Tok star.

# 1000 in the US

Dixie Rank in US Top 1000

# 947 on Nameberry

Dixie Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

Dixie Popularity

Famous People Named Dixie

  • Dixie Virginia Carter
    American actress
  • Dixie Carter
    American pro wrestling promoter
  • Dixie Lucile Reiniger Willson
    American children's author
  • Dixie Isabel Willis
    Australian Olympic distance runner
  • Dixie Browning
    American romance novelist
  • Dixie Bibb Graves
    US Senator from Alabama
  • Dixie Annie Haygood
    American magician
  • Dixie Selden
    American painter
  • Dixie Tan(
    Lee Mo Chun), Singaporean cardiologist and politician
  • Dixie Nann Griffith
    daughter of actor Andy Griffith
  • Dixie Mooney (b. 2000)
    daughter of late drummer Tim Mooney of Sun Kil Moon
  • Dixie Pearl Followill (b. 2012)
    daughter of supermodel Lily Aldridge and musician Caleb Followill
  • Dixie D'Amelio
    TikTok star

Dixie in Pop Culture

  • Dixie Cooney
    Martin, character on American soap "All My Children"
  • Kathleen "Dixie" Dixon
    paramedic on British TV series "Casualty"
  • Dixie
    taxi driver on TV's "Pee,wee's Playhouse"
  • Dixie
    male mouse in animated series "Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks"
  • Dixie Kong
    monkey in the Donkey Kong video game series
  • Dixie McCall
    nurse on TV's "Emergency!"
  • Dixie Clemets
    character in the Rumble Roses video game series
  • "Because of Winn
    Dixie," children's book and movie about a dog named Winn,Dixie
  • Winn
    Dixie, U.S. grocery store chain
  • "Hart of Dixie
    " TV series
  • The Dixie Chicks
    country music band
  • "Dixie
    " a war hymn during the Civil War, and has since represented the Confederate legacy and southern identity more than any other song