Dax
Last seen for girls in 2020 at #15,088 · #692 for boys in 2025, 393 births
Given to boys 99.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2019 · 749 births
- Debut · boys
- 10 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 11,918since 1967
Dax over time
Rank among boys' names. Dax has never cracked the top 400 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 | — | #692 | 393 | |
| 2024 | — | #641 | 438 | |
| 2023 | — | #559 | 520 | |
| 2022 | — | #443 | 702 | |
| 2021 | — | #462 | 647 | |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 | #468 | 635 |
| 2019 | — | #413 | 749 | |
| 2018 | — | #451 | 662 | |
| 2017 | — | #455 | 665 | |
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 | #518 | 574 |
| 2015 | #14,482 | 6 | #551 | 520 |
| 2014 | — | #600 | 450 | |
| 2013 | — | #642 | 382 | |
| 2012 | — | #634 | 379 | |
| 2011 | — | #710 | 322 | |
| 2010 | — | #764 | 293 | |
| 2009 | — | #791 | 284 | |
| 2008 | — | #769 | 289 | |
| 2007 | — | #931 | 213 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,081 | 163 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,081 | 152 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,251 | 120 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,381 | 97 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,315 | 101 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,502 | 81 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,429 | 86 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,374 | 86 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,741 | 58 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,456 | 74 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,817 | 50 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,706 | 52 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,664 | 54 | |
| 1993 | — | #2,209 | 35 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,128 | 36 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,867 | 42 | |
| 1990 | — | #2,170 | 33 | |
| 1989 | — | #2,154 | 32 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,576 | 46 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,938 | 32 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,588 | 41 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,794 | 33 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,723 | 33 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,534 | 39 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,362 | 48 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,411 | 45 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,154 | 62 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,137 | 62 | |
| 1978 | — | #901 | 91 | |
| 1977 | — | #796 | 115 | |
| 1976 | — | #828 | 102 | |
| 1975 | — | #772 | 115 | |
| 1974 | — | #802 | 100 | |
| 1973 | — | #714 | 127 | |
| 1972 | — | #804 | 99 | |
| 1971 | — | #746 | 120 | |
| 1970 | — | #861 | 87 | |
| 1969 | — | #1,861 | 20 | |
| 1968 | — | #1,695 | 22 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,611 | 10 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Dax! It came in at #2,611, and was given to 10 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1967, when fewer than 11 boys a year got the name.
See more about Dax
- 51 spots since 2024 (#641 → #692)
- 224 spots since 2020 (#468 → #692)
- 141 spots since 2015 (#551 → #692)
- Biggest jump: 1,000 spots in 1970 (#1,861 → #861)
- Biggest drop: 236 spots in 1979 (#901 → #1,137)
- Debuted 1967
- Peaked 2019 at #413 (749 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 28 yrs · run 2007–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,395 boys born in 2019 were named Dax (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 4,346 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 41.9% of all boys named Dax (4,996) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 52 | #1,695 (1968) | #2,056 |
| 1970s | 1,018 | #714 (1973) | #836 |
| 1980s | 411 | #1,154 (1980) | #1,623 |
| 1990s | 520 | #1,374 (1999) | #1,813 |
| 2000s | 1,586 | #769 (2008) | #1,153 |
| 2010s | 4,996 | #413 (2019) | #574 |
| 2020s | 3,335 | #443 (2022) | #544 |
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.
Dax in 2015
Top girls' names in 2015
Top boys' names in 2015
More about 2015
girls
1,785,098 girls got a published name in 2015; 1 in 297,516 of them was named Dax, which outranked 24.3% of the 19,130 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #13,006Zyliah7
- #13,006Zymira7
- #13,006Zyniyah7
- #14,482Dax6
- #14,482Aafia6
- #14,482Aailyah6
- #14,482Aala6
- #16,419Aabriella5
- #16,419Aada5
- #16,419Aailiyah5
Tied with 1,936 names at #14,482; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,916,743 boys got a published name in 2015; 1 in 3,686 of them was named Dax, which outranked 96.1% of the 14,059 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.