Name meaning & stats
Dexter
Dexter means “dyer of cloth” (Old English origin). 34,290 US babies since 1940, peak 2012.
What it means
“dyer of cloth”
Old EnglishWell documented
Originally a surname.
In US birth records
Peak year: 2012
34,290 US babies were named Dexter between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Dexter (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Name twins (peaked around 2012)