Axl
Last seen for girls in 2020 at #15,088 · #1,123 for boys in 2025, 190 births
Given to boys 99.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2019 · 379 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,408since 1988
Axl over time
Rank among boys' names. Axl has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #1,123 | 190 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,023 | 218 | |
| 2023 | — | #897 | 259 | |
| 2022 | — | #873 | 276 | |
| 2021 | — | #845 | 281 | |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 | #756 | 318 |
| 2019 | — | #677 | 379 | |
| 2018 | — | #740 | 322 | |
| 2017 | — | #717 | 339 | |
| 2016 | — | #778 | 306 | |
| 2015 | — | #761 | 313 | |
| 2014 | — | #835 | 270 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,459 | 113 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,551 | 102 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,886 | 74 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,169 | 61 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,183 | 61 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,684 | 46 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,442 | 52 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,832 | 40 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,803 | 38 | |
| 2004 | — | #3,285 | 29 | |
| 2003 | — | #3,186 | 29 | |
| 2002 | — | #4,502 | 17 | |
| 2001 | — | #3,321 | 26 | |
| 2000 | — | #3,764 | 21 | |
| 1999 | — | #4,762 | 14 | |
| 1998 | — | #5,840 | 10 | |
| 1997 | — | #5,642 | 10 | |
| 1996 | — | #4,878 | 12 | |
| 1995 | — | #2,923 | 24 | |
| 1994 | — | #3,109 | 22 | |
| 1993 | — | #2,509 | 29 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,467 | 29 | |
| 1991 | — | #2,828 | 23 | |
| 1990 | — | #2,628 | 25 | |
| 1989 | — | #2,902 | 21 | |
| 1988 | — | #4,786 | 9 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Axl! It came in at #4,786, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1988, when fewer than 10 boys a year got the name.
See more about Axl
- 100 spots since 2024 (#1,023 → #1,123)
- 367 spots since 2020 (#756 → #1,123)
- 362 spots since 2015 (#761 → #1,123)
- Biggest jump: 624 spots in 2014 (#1,459 → #835)
- Biggest drop: 126 spots in 2024 (#897 → #1,023)
- Debuted 1988
- Peaked 2019 at #677 (379 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 10 yrs · run 2014–2023
- Highest: 1 in 4,734 boys born in 2019 were named Axl (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 8,990 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 51.7% of all boys named Axl (2,279) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 30 | #2,902 (1989) | #3,844 |
| 1990s | 198 | #2,467 (1992) | #3,759 |
| 2000s | 359 | #2,183 (2009) | #3,100 |
| 2010s | 2,279 | #677 (2019) | #1,157 |
| 2020s | 1,542 | #756 (2020) | #920 |
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.
Axl in 2008
Top boys' names in 2008
More about 2008
boys
2,040,150 boys got a published name in 2008; 1 in 44,351 of them was named Axl, which outranked 81.6% of the 14,625 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,632Zakkary47
- #2,632Zayan47
- #2,632Zayn47
- #2,684Axl46
- #2,684Andrik46
- #2,684Anthoni46
- #2,684Armoni46
- #2,717Amadeus45
- #2,717Andi45
- #2,717Cairo45
Tied with 32 names at #2,684; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.