Given name & surname · also Old English
Bixby
“box tree”
Bixby is a surname from Old English (ultimately Old Norse).
Meaning & origin
What it means
Bixby goes back to Old English byxe, meaning “box tree.”
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Where it comes from
Bixby comes from Old English, and ultimately from Old Norse.
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How it developed
From Old English byxe (“box tree”), from Old Norse býr (“farm, town”).
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The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2010. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Bixby through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 37
- 20 boys · 17 girls
- Most popular year
- 2014
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 3,884 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
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