Axton
Last seen for girls in 2019 at #15,539 · #906 for boys in 2025, 262 births
Given to boys 99.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2018 · 460 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 5,672since 1988
Axton over time
Rank among boys' names. Axton has never cracked the top 500 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 | — | #906 | 262 | |
| 2024 | — | #834 | 297 | |
| 2023 | — | #685 | 393 | |
| 2022 | — | #642 | 429 | |
| 2021 | — | #599 | 464 | |
| 2020 | — | #606 | 451 | |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 | #620 | 441 |
| 2018 | — | #594 | 460 | |
| 2017 | — | #624 | 418 | |
| 2016 | — | #723 | 339 | |
| 2015 | — | #701 | 359 | |
| 2014 | — | #758 | 310 | |
| 2013 | — | #862 | 247 | |
| 2012 | — | #925 | 222 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,331 | 127 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,517 | 107 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,774 | 85 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,161 | 62 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,602 | 47 | |
| 2006 | — | #3,524 | 29 | |
| 2005 | — | #3,615 | 26 | |
| 2004 | — | #5,007 | 16 | |
| 2003 | — | #5,271 | 14 | |
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| 2001 | — | #7,536 | 8 | |
| 2000 | — | #6,839 | 9 | |
| 1999 | — | #7,874 | 7 | |
| 1998 | — | #9,631 | 5 | |
| 1997 | — | #6,100 | 9 | |
| 1996 | — | #5,187 | 11 | |
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| 1994 | — | #7,770 | 6 | |
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| 1992 | — | #8,435 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Axton! It came in at #5,751, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1989–1993, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Axton is popular in 2010
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Iowa#444 · 1 in 2,548
- Oklahoma#481 · 1 in 2,572
- Utah#591 · 1 in 3,678
- Ohio#1,168 · 1 in 12,106
- Texas#1,349 · 1 in 16,238
Best ever in a state: #103 in West Virginia, 2022.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Iowa | #444 | 6 | 1 in 2,548 |
| Oklahoma | #481 | 8 | 1 in 2,572 |
| Utah | #591 | 6 | 1 in 3,678 |
| Ohio | #1,168 | 5 | 1 in 12,106 |
| Texas | #1,349 | 11 | 1 in 16,238 |
| California | #2,016 | 7 | 1 in 33,396 |
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See more about Axton
- 72 spots since 2024 (#834 → #906)
- 300 spots since 2020 (#606 → #906)
- 205 spots since 2015 (#701 → #906)
- Biggest jump: 406 spots in 2012 (#1,331 → #925)
- Biggest drop: 149 spots in 2024 (#685 → #834)
- Debuted 1988
- Peaked 2018 at #594 (460 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 14 yrs · run 2012–2025
- Highest: 1 in 3,770 boys born in 2021 were named Axton (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 6,519 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- Its best rank, #594 in 2018, was only 1 in 3,948 (0.03%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 53.4% of all boys named Axton (3,030) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1980s | 7 | #5,751 (1988) | #5,751 |
| 1990s | 43 | #5,187 (1996) | #7,500 |
| 2000s | 296 | #1,774 (2009) | #4,259 |
| 2010s | 3,030 | #594 (2018) | #866 |
| 2020s | 2,296 | #599 (2021) | #712 |
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.
Axton in 2010
Top boys' names in 2010
More about 2010
boys
1,918,676 boys got a published name in 2010; 1 in 17,932 of them was named Axton, which outranked 89.4% of the 14,270 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,503Robin108
- #1,503Westley108
- #1,503Zephaniah108
- #1,517Axton107
- #1,517Canyon107
- #1,517Clifton107
- #1,517Fred107
- #1,525Braelyn106
- #1,525Darin106
- #1,525Daveon106
Tied with 7 names at #1,517; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.