Aksel
#1,267 for boys in 2025, 155 births
- Peak · boys
- 2018 · 198 births
- Debut · boys
- 10 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,561since 1989
Aksel over time
Rank among boys' names. Aksel has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,267 | 155 |
| 2024 | #1,426 | 128 |
| 2023 | #1,288 | 149 |
| 2022 | #1,457 | 124 |
| 2021 | #1,245 | 153 |
| 2020 | #1,177 | 163 |
| 2019 | #1,277 | 146 |
| 2018 | #1,029 | 198 |
| 2017 | #1,252 | 146 |
| 2016 | #1,105 | 177 |
| 2015 | #1,359 | 128 |
| 2014 | #1,362 | 125 |
| 2013 | #2,021 | 67 |
| 2012 | #1,756 | 85 |
| 2011 | #1,635 | 93 |
| 2010 | #1,399 | 119 |
| 2009 | #2,381 | 54 |
| 2008 | #2,542 | 49 |
| 2007 | #2,602 | 47 |
| 2006 | #2,542 | 47 |
| 2005 | #2,960 | 35 |
| 2004 | #3,285 | 29 |
| 2003 | #2,620 | 38 |
| 2002 | #4,703 | 16 |
| 2001 | #3,721 | 22 |
| 2000 | #3,764 | 21 |
| 1999 | #5,035 | 13 |
| 1998 | #8,479 | 6 |
| 1997 | #9,265 | 5 |
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| 1994 | #7,770 | 6 |
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| 1992 | #6,670 | 7 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Aksel! It came in at #4,811, and was given to 10 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1990–1991, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Aksel
- 159 spots since 2024 (#1,426 → #1,267)
- 90 spots since 2020 (#1,177 → #1,267)
- 92 spots since 2015 (#1,359 → #1,267)
- Debuted 1989
- Peaked 2018 at #1,029 (198 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 9,173 boys born in 2018 were named Aksel (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 11,020 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 50.1% of all boys named Aksel (1,284) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 10 | #4,811 (1989) | #4,811 |
| 1990s | 37 | #5,035 (1999) | #7,444 |
| 2000s | 358 | #2,381 (2009) | #3,112 |
| 2010s | 1,284 | #1,029 (2018) | #1,420 |
| 2020s | 872 | #1,177 (2020) | #1,310 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Aksel in 2006
Top boys' names in 2006
More about 2006
boys
2,055,273 boys got a published name in 2006; 1 in 43,729 of them was named Aksel, which outranked 81.9% of the 14,047 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,513Trinidad48
- #2,513Vedant48
- #2,513Wolfgang48
- #2,542Aksel47
- #2,542Aidon47
- #2,542Aneesh47
- #2,542Carmen47
- #2,578Abisai46
- #2,578Amaree46
- #2,578Amit46
Tied with 35 names at #2,542; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.