Saxon

Last seen for girls in 2018 at #11,427 · #3,089 for boys in 2025, 39 births
Given to boys 90.4% of the time

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Peak · boys
1996 · 51 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,571
since 1954

Saxon over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201954peak #2,876, 1914peak #1,785, 1996girlsboys
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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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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#3,08939
2024#3,04540
2023#3,34735
2022#2,61651
2021#2,52352
2020#2,80643
2019#2,58250
2018#11,4278#2,63547
2017#12,7137#2,63747
2016#14,3316#2,58748
2015#16,4195#2,80942
2014#16,5135#2,70544
2013#2,71543
2012#3,37132
2011#14,8246#3,23534
2010#2,73044
2009#17,2945#2,56049
2008#15,4056#2,82842
2007#10,81810#2,76543
2006#13,6067#2,62145
2005#16,4625#3,44728
2004#14,1796#3,45627
2003#11,3258#3,36627
2002#13,5956#2,94331
2001#2,38641
2000#15,0315#2,22244
1999#2,56034
1998#3,09225
1997#12,0706#2,50232
1996#1,78551
1995#10,5147#2,50030
1994#1,79548
1993#13,4425#1,96941
1992#1,88443
1991#11,5096#1,91940
1990#9,2478#3,30918
1989#2,61524
1988#2,50923
1987#8,7787#2,94217
1986#2,68419
1985#3,80511
1984#5,5616
1983#4,9077
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1917#4,0836
1916#3,9196
1915#3,7956
1914#2,8767
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First appearance
1954

The first year at least five boys were named Saxon! It came in at #3,827, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1954–1971, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Saxon
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 44 spots since 2024 (#3,045#3,089)
  • 283 spots since 2020 (#2,806#3,089)
  • 280 spots since 2015 (#2,809#3,089)
Rise & fade · boys
42 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1954
  • Peaked 1996 at #1,785 (51 births)
  • Births halved by 1998, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 33,644
  • Highest: 1 in 33,644 boys born in 2021 were named Saxon (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 43,797 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,785 in 1996, was only 1 in 37,143 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 27.4% of all boys named Saxon (431) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1954
  • Mostly girls until 1953, mostly boys since
all girlsall boys
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1950s5#3,827 (1954)#3,827
1960s10#4,033 (1962)#4,219
1970s14#3,622 (1972)#4,341
1980s112#2,509 (1988)#3,911
1990s362#1,785 (1996)#2,332
2000s377#2,222 (2000)#2,859
2010s431#2,582 (2019)#2,801
2020s260#2,523 (2021)#2,904

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.

Saxon in 1954

boys
#3,827
5 births · 1 in 407,750 boys

Top boys' names in 1954

  1. #1Michael88,568
  2. #2Robert86,331
  3. #3James86,311
  4. #4John81,168
  5. #5David79,556
  6. #6William61,426
  7. #7Richard57,042
  8. #8Thomas47,159
  9. #9Gary37,920
  10. #10Charles37,463
  11. #3,827Saxon5
More about 1954

boys

2,038,751 boys got a published name in 1954; 1 in 407,750 of them was named Saxon, which outranked 12.2% of the 4,360 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 32.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Saxon
  1. #3,452Yolanda6
  2. #3,452Zachariah6
  3. #3,452Zeferino6
  4. #3,827Saxon5
  5. #3,827Abbie5
  6. #3,827Abdon5
  7. #3,827Adelaido5

Tied with 533 names at #3,827; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1953
Risers
  1. 592Ricci#1,331#739
  2. 470Demetrius#1,357#887
  3. 382Crawford#1,378#996
  4. 310Gavin#1,139#829
  5. 296Dino#1,058#762
Fallers
  1. 504Arlin#878#1,382
  2. 347Adan#895#1,242
  3. 345Dayton#966#1,311
  4. 302Garey#966#1,268
  5. 293Bartholomew#975#1,268

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

See the top 100 for 1954