Dax
Last seen for girls in 2020 at #15,088 · #692 for boys in 2025, 393 births
Given to boys 99.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2019 · 749 births
- Debut · boys
- 10 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 11,918since 1967
Dax over time
Rank among boys' names. Dax has never cracked the top 400 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 | — | #692 | 393 | |
| 2024 | — | #641 | 438 | |
| 2023 | — | #559 | 520 | |
| 2022 | — | #443 | 702 | |
| 2021 | — | #462 | 647 | |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 | #468 | 635 |
| 2019 | — | #413 | 749 | |
| 2018 | — | #451 | 662 | |
| 2017 | — | #455 | 665 | |
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 | #518 | 574 |
| 2015 | #14,482 | 6 | #551 | 520 |
| 2014 | — | #600 | 450 | |
| 2013 | — | #642 | 382 | |
| 2012 | — | #634 | 379 | |
| 2011 | — | #710 | 322 | |
| 2010 | — | #764 | 293 | |
| 2009 | — | #791 | 284 | |
| 2008 | — | #769 | 289 | |
| 2007 | — | #931 | 213 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,081 | 163 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,081 | 152 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,251 | 120 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,381 | 97 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,315 | 101 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,502 | 81 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,429 | 86 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,374 | 86 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,741 | 58 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,456 | 74 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,817 | 50 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,706 | 52 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,664 | 54 | |
| 1993 | — | #2,209 | 35 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,128 | 36 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,867 | 42 | |
| 1990 | — | #2,170 | 33 | |
| 1989 | — | #2,154 | 32 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,576 | 46 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,938 | 32 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,588 | 41 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,794 | 33 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,723 | 33 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,534 | 39 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,362 | 48 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,411 | 45 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,154 | 62 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,137 | 62 | |
| 1978 | — | #901 | 91 | |
| 1977 | — | #796 | 115 | |
| 1976 | — | #828 | 102 | |
| 1975 | — | #772 | 115 | |
| 1974 | — | #802 | 100 | |
| 1973 | — | #714 | 127 | |
| 1972 | — | #804 | 99 | |
| 1971 | — | #746 | 120 | |
| 1970 | — | #861 | 87 | |
| 1969 | — | #1,861 | 20 | |
| 1968 | — | #1,695 | 22 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,611 | 10 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Dax! It came in at #2,611, and was given to 10 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1967, when fewer than 11 boys a year got the name.
Where Dax is popular in 1997
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Utah#398 · 1 in 2,732
- Texas#963 · 1 in 13,089
- California#1,531 · 1 in 30,698
Best ever in a state: #88 in Wyoming, 2019.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Utah | #398 | 7 | 1 in 2,732 |
| Texas | #963 | 12 | 1 in 13,089 |
| California | #1,531 | 8 | 1 in 30,698 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Dax
- 51 spots since 2024 (#641 → #692)
- 224 spots since 2020 (#468 → #692)
- 141 spots since 2015 (#551 → #692)
- Biggest jump: 1,000 spots in 1970 (#1,861 → #861)
- Biggest drop: 236 spots in 1979 (#901 → #1,137)
- Debuted 1967
- Peaked 2019 at #413 (749 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 28 yrs · run 2007–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,395 boys born in 2019 were named Dax (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 4,346 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 41.9% of all boys named Dax (4,996) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1960s | 52 | #1,695 (1968) | #2,056 |
| 1970s | 1,018 | #714 (1973) | #836 |
| 1980s | 411 | #1,154 (1980) | #1,623 |
| 1990s | 520 | #1,374 (1999) | #1,813 |
| 2000s | 1,586 | #769 (2008) | #1,153 |
| 2010s | 4,996 | #413 (2019) | #574 |
| 2020s | 3,335 | #443 (2022) | #544 |
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.
Dax in 1997
Top boys' names in 1997
More about 1997
boys
1,885,140 boys got a published name in 1997; 1 in 25,475 of them was named Dax, which outranked 86.5% of the 10,814 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,438Soren75
- #1,438Taran75
- #1,438Tryston75
- #1,456Dax74
- #1,456Christion74
- #1,456Dameon74
- #1,456Gareth74
- #1,468Baylee73
- #1,468Campbell73
- #1,468Cannon73
Tied with 11 names at #1,456; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.