Jax
#7,885 for girls in 2025, 13 births · #342 for boys in 2025, 961 births
Given to boys 99.1% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2014 · 1,855 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 25,085since 1995
Jax over time
Rank among boys' names. Jax has never cracked the top 200 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 | #7,885 | 13 | #342 | 961 |
| 2024 | #12,161 | 7 | #313 | 1,095 |
| 2023 | #7,640 | 14 | #287 | 1,161 |
| 2022 | #6,707 | 17 | #271 | 1,272 |
| 2021 | #8,978 | 11 | #243 | 1,455 |
| 2020 | #12,142 | 7 | #246 | 1,424 |
| 2019 | #7,342 | 15 | #237 | 1,600 |
| 2018 | #8,146 | 13 | #214 | 1,767 |
| 2017 | #8,776 | 12 | #222 | 1,725 |
| 2016 | #5,985 | 21 | #215 | 1,813 |
| 2015 | #3,915 | 38 | #215 | 1,865 |
| 2014 | #9,517 | 11 | #208 | 1,855 |
| 2013 | #11,000 | 9 | #222 | 1,685 |
| 2012 | #11,257 | 9 | #305 | 1,123 |
| 2011 | #10,374 | 10 | #321 | 990 |
| 2010 | #9,790 | 11 | #348 | 882 |
| 2009 | #15,242 | 6 | #426 | 675 |
| 2008 | — | #693 | 343 | |
| 2007 | — | #815 | 262 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,003 | 183 | |
| 2005 | — | #990 | 174 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,013 | 162 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,233 | 117 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,433 | 90 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,460 | 84 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,609 | 73 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,342 | 89 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,488 | 74 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,672 | 59 | |
| 1996 | — | #3,202 | 22 | |
| 1995 | — | #8,868 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Jax! It came in at #8,868, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1995, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Jax
- 29 spots since 2024 (#313 → #342)
- 96 spots since 2020 (#246 → #342)
- 127 spots since 2015 (#215 → #342)
- Biggest jump: 267 spots in 2009 (#693 → #426)
- Biggest drop: 29 spots in 2025 (#313 → #342)
- Debuted 1995
- Peaked 2014 at #208 (1,855 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 20 yrs · run 2007–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,028 boys born in 2015 were named Jax (0.10%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,777 boys born in 2025 (0.06%)
- Its best rank, #208 in 2014, was only 1 in 1,036 (0.10%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 61.0% of all boys named Jax (15,305) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 249 | #1,342 (1999) | #3,314 |
| 2000s | 2,163 | #426 (2009) | #1,068 |
| 2010s | 15,305 | #208 (2014) | #251 |
| 2020s | 7,368 | #243 (2021) | #284 |
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.
Jax in 2018
Top girls' names in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
girls
1,701,074 girls got a published name in 2018; 1 in 130,852 of them was named Jax, which outranked 55.1% of the 18,152 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #7,762Zhamira14
- #7,762Zylie14
- #7,762Zyniah14
- #8,146Jax13
- #8,146Aadvika13
- #8,146Aala13
- #8,146Aanshi13
- #8,617Aaila12
- #8,617Aalina12
- #8,617Aamilah12
Tied with 470 names at #8,146; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 1,028 of them was named Jax, which outranked 98.5% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.