The names Loxie and Loxi both debuted in the U.S. baby name data in 1942:
- 1944: 8 baby girls named Loxie (fewer than 5 named Loxi)
- 1943: 13 baby girls named Loxie, 8 baby girls named Loxi
- 1942: 9 baby girls named Loxie, 6 baby girls named Loxi
- 1941: unlisted
- 1940: unlisted
Where did they come from?
The movie Reap the Wild Wind (1942), which was set in the 1840s and starred Paulette Goddard as headstrong protagonist Loxi Claiborne.
Loxi ran a marine salvage operation in the Florida Keys. Her two love interests were Capt. Jack Stuart (played by John Wayne) and Stephen Tolliver, a lawyer from Charleston.
The movie was based on a story by American novelist Thelma Strabel that had been serialized in the Saturday Evening Post in 1940, from April to June.
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