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 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
Top boys' names in 2020
More about 2020
girls
1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 323,310 of them was named Axl, which outranked 13.9% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,439 names at #15,088; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,726,076 boys got a published name in 2020; 1 in 5,428 of them was named Axl, which outranked 94.6% of the 14,060 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 380Vivaan#875 → #1,255
- ↓ 282Alexzander#890 → #1,172
- ↓ 268Reyansh#806 → #1,074
- ↓ 266Javion#949 → #1,215
- ↓ 224Kenny#862 → #1,086
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.