Axton

Last seen for girls in 2019 at #15,539 · #906 for boys in 2025, 262 births
Given to boys 99.9% of the time

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Peak · boys
2018 · 460 births
Debut · boys
7 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
5,672
since 1988

Axton over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Axton has never cracked the top 500 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202006peak #594, 2018boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#906262
2024#834297
2023#685393
2022#642429
2021#599464
2020#606451
2019#15,5395#620441
2018#594460
2017#624418
2016#723339
2015#701359
2014#758310
2013#862247
2012#925222
2011#1,331127
2010#1,517107
2009#1,77485
2008#2,16162
2007#2,60247
2006#3,52429
2005#3,61526
2004#5,00716
2003#5,27114
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2001#7,5368
2000#6,8399
1999#7,8747
1998#9,6315
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First appearance
1988

The first year at least five boys were named Axton! It came in at #5,751, and was given to 7 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1989–1993, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Axton
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 72 spots since 2024 (#834#906)
  • 300 spots since 2020 (#606#906)
  • 205 spots since 2015 (#701#906)
  • Biggest jump: 406 spots in 2012 (#1,331#925)
  • Biggest drop: 149 spots in 2024 (#685#834)
Rise & fade · boys
30 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1988
  • Peaked 2018 at #594 (460 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 14 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 14 yrs · run 2012–2025
Share of babies · boys
1 in 3,770
  • Highest: 1 in 3,770 boys born in 2021 were named Axton (0.03%)
  • Latest: 1 in 6,519 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
  • Its best rank, #594 in 2018, was only 1 in 3,948 (0.03%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 53.4% of all boys named Axton (3,030) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s7#5,751 (1988)#5,751
1990s43#5,187 (1996)#7,500
2000s296#1,774 (2009)#4,259
2010s3,030#594 (2018)#866
2020s2,296#599 (2021)#712

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.

Axton in 2006

boys
#3,524
29 births · 1 in 70,871 boys

Top boys' names in 2006

  1. #1Jacob24,871
  2. #2Michael22,653
  3. #3Joshua22,336
  4. #4Ethan20,522
  5. #5Matthew20,339
  6. #6Daniel20,082
  7. #7Andrew19,733
  8. #8Christopher19,688
  9. #9Anthony19,413
  10. #10William18,965
  11. #3,524Axton29
More about 2006

boys

2,055,273 boys got a published name in 2006; 1 in 70,871 of them was named Axton, which outranked 74.9% 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).

Ranked beside Axton
  1. #3,451Unique30
  2. #3,451Yanni30
  3. #3,451Zyion30
  4. #3,524Axton29
  5. #3,524Alessio29
  6. #3,524Andree29
  7. #3,524Antonino29
  8. #3,602Aaryn28
  9. #3,602Abhishek28
  10. #3,602Alexys28

Tied with 77 names at #3,524; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2005
Risers
  1. 792Bode#1,648#856
  2. 790Talen#1,691#901
  3. 677Kingston#1,603#926
  4. 634Imanol#1,619#985
  5. 590Yandel#1,266#676
Fallers
  1. 2,208Baby#945#3,153
  2. 609Kanye#892#1,501
  3. 442Amarion#628#1,070
  4. 308Omarion#420#728
  5. 224Johnpaul#739#963

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2006