Name meaning & stats
Baxter
Baxter. 2,707 US babies since 1940, peak 2014.
What it means
No agreed meaning on record
Originally a surname.
In US birth records
Peak year: 2014
2,707 US babies were named Baxter between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Baxter (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Name twins (peaked around 2014)