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Onyxx

Gender
Boy
Say it
ON-iks
Origin
English
US rank, 2025
#5,397 for boys

Onyxx is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “banded black gemstone”. In 2025 it ranked 5,397th for boys in the US (17 babies).

What does Onyxx mean?

English: respelling of onyx, from Greek onyx 'fingernail, claw'

“banded black gemstone”

Onyx is a banded stone, often polished black; its name is the Greek word for fingernail.

Is Onyxx a girl's or a boy's name?

Onyxx is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls and 17 boys in the US.

How popular is Onyxx in the US?

Rank in 2025
5,397th among boys
Babies in 2025
17 about 1 in 100,000 boys
Five-year trend
Rising fast up 167% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 17 boys in the US were named Onyxx, making it the 5,397th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,016th. Its busiest year was 2023, with 27 boys. It first appears in the records in 2018. 6 girls were also named Onyxx in 2025 (13,203rd for girls).

Half of all the boys named Onyxx in the US since 1880 were born between 2021 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 898 boys in the US were given Onyxx or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #375, up from #5,397 for this spelling alone.

2018Busiest: 27 in 20232025
Onyxx in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202517#5,397
202412#6,827
202327#3,999
202226#4,086
202116#5,557
20205#12,016
201910#7,638
20186#10,754

Names like Onyxx

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Onyxx

More English names

Every English name

Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Onyxx: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/onyxx, updated 20 October 2026.