Name: Dexter
Gender: Male
Usage: Dexter, of latin origin, is a very popular first name. It is more often used as a boy (male) name.
People having the name Dexter are in general originating from Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Variants: For another variant of the name Dexter across the world, see Dyer.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Dexter is: Dyer of cloth, Flexible.
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Numerology of the first name Dexter: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 4. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: traditional, organized, self-disciplined, steady, logical, practical, helpful, reliable.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Practical, Dependable
Ruling planet: Uranus
Colors: Blue, Gray
Gemstones: Sapphire
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The name Dexter is ranked on the 1,192nd position of the most used names. It means that this name is very frequently used.
We estimate that there are at least 415700 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.006% of the population. The name Dexter has six characters. It means that it is relatively medium-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Dexter for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
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History and Origin
Dexter is both a surname and a masculine given name. Notable people with the name include:
English (mainly U.S.): transferred use of the surname. Although this is now a male given name, the word that gave rise to the surname originally denoted a female dyer, from Old English dēag dye + -estre feminine suffix of agent nouns. However, the distinction of gender was already lost in Middle English. The name coincides in form with Latin dexter right-handed, auspicious, and may sometimes have been chosen because of this.
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