Axle
#1,708 for boys in 2025, 95 births
- Peak · boys
- 2019 · 148 births
- Debut · boys
- 12 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,816since 1989
Axle over time
Rank among boys' names. Axle 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 | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,708 | 95 |
| 2024 | #1,752 | 94 |
| 2023 | #1,420 | 128 |
| 2022 | #1,421 | 129 |
| 2021 | #1,267 | 150 |
| 2020 | #1,368 | 129 |
| 2019 | #1,265 | 148 |
| 2018 | #1,418 | 123 |
| 2017 | #1,321 | 136 |
| 2016 | #1,339 | 133 |
| 2015 | #1,369 | 127 |
| 2014 | #1,485 | 109 |
| 2013 | #2,165 | 61 |
| 2012 | #2,209 | 59 |
| 2011 | #2,904 | 40 |
| 2010 | #3,181 | 35 |
| 2009 | #4,278 | 23 |
| 2008 | #9,019 | 8 |
| 2007 | #5,210 | 17 |
| 2006 | #6,460 | 12 |
| 2005 | #5,875 | 13 |
| 2004 | #11,356 | 5 |
| 2003 | #10,894 | 5 |
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| 1997 | #9,265 | 5 |
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| 1995 | #7,792 | 6 |
| 1994 | #8,800 | 5 |
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| 1990 | #5,382 | 9 |
| 1989 | #4,271 | 12 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Axle! It came in at #4,271, and was given to 12 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1991–1994, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Axle is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- West Virginia#328 · 1 in 1,499
- Tennessee#758 · 1 in 5,181
- Wisconsin#758 · 1 in 5,198
- Colorado#758 · 1 in 5,290
- Indiana#819 · 1 in 5,742
Best ever in a state: #328 in West Virginia, 2017.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| West Virginia | #328 | 5 | 1 in 1,499 |
| Colorado | #758 | 5 | 1 in 5,290 |
| Tennessee | #758 | 7 | 1 in 5,181 |
| Wisconsin | #758 | 5 | 1 in 5,198 |
| Indiana | #819 | 6 | 1 in 5,742 |
| Missouri | #840 | 5 | 1 in 6,121 |
| Michigan | #873 | 7 | 1 in 6,632 |
| North Carolina | #1,028 | 6 | 1 in 8,554 |
| Texas | #1,092 | 17 | 1 in 10,363 |
| Ohio | #1,202 | 5 | 1 in 11,672 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,211 | 5 | 1 in 11,642 |
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See more about Axle
- 44 spots since 2024 (#1,752 → #1,708)
- 340 spots since 2020 (#1,368 → #1,708)
- 339 spots since 2015 (#1,369 → #1,708)
- Debuted 1989
- Peaked 2019 at #1,265 (148 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 11,663 boys born in 2021 were named Axle (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 17,980 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,265 in 2019, was only 1 in 12,123 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 53.5% of all boys named Axle (971) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 12 | #4,271 (1989) | #4,271 |
| 1990s | 25 | #5,382 (1990) | #7,810 |
| 2000s | 83 | #4,278 (2009) | #7,585 |
| 2010s | 971 | #1,265 (2019) | #1,866 |
| 2020s | 725 | #1,267 (2021) | #1,489 |
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.
Axle in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
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1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 13,610 of them was named Axle, which outranked 90.7% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,314Jovan137
- #1,314Kenji137
- #1,314Kenton137
- #1,321Axle136
- #1,321Barron136
- #1,321Barry136
- #1,321Cedar136
- #1,332Bellamy135
- #1,332Link135
- #1,332Nikko135
Tied with 10 names at #1,321; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.