Pax
Last seen for girls in 2023 at #15,194 · #2,056 for boys in 2025, 72 births
Given to boys 95.1% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2024 · 80 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,044since 1974
Pax over time
Rank among boys' names. Pax has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #2,056 | 72 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,957 | 80 | |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 | #2,277 | 62 |
| 2022 | — | #2,299 | 62 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,040 | 72 | |
| 2020 | #12,142 | 7 | #2,212 | 62 |
| 2019 | #13,799 | 6 | #2,150 | 66 |
| 2018 | #11,427 | 8 | #1,959 | 75 |
| 2017 | #15,902 | 5 | #2,154 | 63 |
| 2016 | #9,411 | 11 | #1,975 | 73 |
| 2015 | #13,006 | 7 | #2,145 | 64 |
| 2014 | #16,513 | 5 | #2,461 | 51 |
| 2013 | — | #2,562 | 47 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,594 | 47 | |
| 2011 | — | #3,046 | 37 | |
| 2010 | — | #3,239 | 34 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,894 | 41 | |
| 2008 | — | #5,767 | 15 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Pax! It came in at #4,190, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1975–2006, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Pax
- 99 spots since 2024 (#1,957 → #2,056)
- 156 spots since 2020 (#2,212 → #2,056)
- 89 spots since 2015 (#2,145 → #2,056)
- Debuted 1974
- Peaked 2024 at #1,957 (80 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 21,536 boys born in 2024 were named Pax (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 23,723 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 53.4% of all boys named Pax (557) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 12 | #4,190 (1974) | #4,827 |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 65 | #2,894 (2009) | #5,611 |
| 2010s | 557 | #1,959 (2018) | #2,429 |
| 2020s | 410 | #1,957 (2024) | #2,140 |
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.
Pax in 2023
Top girls' names in 2023
Top boys' names in 2023
More about 2023
girls
1,604,582 girls got a published name in 2023; 1 in 320,916 of them was named Pax, which outranked 13.7% of the 17,615 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,421 names at #15,194; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 27,590 of them was named Pax, which outranked 84.0% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,244Yash63
- #2,244Yusef63
- #2,244Zach63
- #2,277Pax62
- #2,277Collins62
- #2,277Deshaun62
- #2,277Fateh62
- #2,290Adley61
- #2,290Ahsan61
- #2,290Brenden61
Tied with 12 names at #2,277; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.