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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 2025
Top boys' names in 2025
More about 2025
boys
1,708,076 boys got a published name in 2025; 1 in 23,723 of them was named Pax, which outranked 85.2% of the 13,930 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880).
- #2,035Ryver73
- #2,035Swayde73
- #2,035Tylin73
- #2,056Pax72
- #2,056Alfie72
- #2,056Atharva72
- #2,056Aylan72
- #2,077Aharon71
- #2,077Akeem71
- #2,077Alpha71
Tied with 20 names at #2,056; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.