Jax
#7,885 for girls in 2025, 13 births · #342 for boys in 2025, 961 births
Given to boys 99.1% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2014 · 1,855 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 25,085since 1995
Jax over time
Rank among boys' names. Jax has never cracked the top 200 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 | #7,885 | 13 | #342 | 961 |
| 2024 | #12,161 | 7 | #313 | 1,095 |
| 2023 | #7,640 | 14 | #287 | 1,161 |
| 2022 | #6,707 | 17 | #271 | 1,272 |
| 2021 | #8,978 | 11 | #243 | 1,455 |
| 2020 | #12,142 | 7 | #246 | 1,424 |
| 2019 | #7,342 | 15 | #237 | 1,600 |
| 2018 | #8,146 | 13 | #214 | 1,767 |
| 2017 | #8,776 | 12 | #222 | 1,725 |
| 2016 | #5,985 | 21 | #215 | 1,813 |
| 2015 | #3,915 | 38 | #215 | 1,865 |
| 2014 | #9,517 | 11 | #208 | 1,855 |
| 2013 | #11,000 | 9 | #222 | 1,685 |
| 2012 | #11,257 | 9 | #305 | 1,123 |
| 2011 | #10,374 | 10 | #321 | 990 |
| 2010 | #9,790 | 11 | #348 | 882 |
| 2009 | #15,242 | 6 | #426 | 675 |
| 2008 | — | #693 | 343 | |
| 2007 | — | #815 | 262 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,003 | 183 | |
| 2005 | — | #990 | 174 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,013 | 162 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,233 | 117 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,433 | 90 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,460 | 84 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,609 | 73 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,342 | 89 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,488 | 74 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,672 | 59 | |
| 1996 | — | #3,202 | 22 | |
| 1995 | — | #8,868 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Jax! It came in at #8,868, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1995, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Jax is popular in 2010
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Idaho#132 · 1 in 442
- Wyoming#138 · 1 in 381
- Nebraska#168 · 1 in 616
- South Dakota#172 · 1 in 568
- North Dakota#179 · 1 in 591
Best ever in a state: #55 in Wyoming, 2013.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Idaho | #132 | 19 | 1 in 442 |
| Wyoming | #138 | 5 | 1 in 381 |
| Nebraska | #168 | 16 | 1 in 616 |
| South Dakota | #172 | 7 | 1 in 568 |
| North Dakota | #179 | 6 | 1 in 591 |
| Minnesota | #188 | 33 | 1 in 840 |
| Arkansas | #193 | 18 | 1 in 802 |
| Iowa | #195 | 20 | 1 in 764 |
| Kansas | #198 | 21 | 1 in 779 |
| Utah | #223 | 26 | 1 in 849 |
| Indiana | #225 | 34 | 1 in 1,063 |
| Louisiana | #242 | 21 | 1 in 1,135 |
| Missouri | #264 | 26 | 1 in 1,256 |
| Arizona | #270 | 28 | 1 in 1,332 |
| Oklahoma | #278 | 17 | 1 in 1,210 |
| West Virginia | #283 | 5 | 1 in 1,613 |
| Connecticut | #284 | 9 | 1 in 1,630 |
| Washington | #287 | 26 | 1 in 1,368 |
| Colorado | #297 | 21 | 1 in 1,310 |
| Kentucky | #329 | 12 | 1 in 1,873 |
| Michigan | #333 | 26 | 1 in 1,854 |
| Ohio | #334 | 29 | 1 in 2,087 |
| Wisconsin | #335 | 15 | 1 in 1,851 |
| Tennessee | #341 | 19 | 1 in 1,850 |
| Illinois | #343 | 36 | 1 in 1,940 |
| California | #350 | 106 | 1 in 2,205 |
| Mississippi | #360 | 8 | 1 in 1,728 |
| Pennsylvania | #360 | 25 | 1 in 2,440 |
| Oregon | #362 | 11 | 1 in 1,665 |
| Texas | #374 | 79 | 1 in 2,261 |
| Alabama | #397 | 11 | 1 in 2,124 |
| North Carolina | #446 | 18 | 1 in 2,865 |
| Florida | #463 | 31 | 1 in 2,988 |
| Nevada | #479 | 5 | 1 in 2,735 |
| Georgia | #482 | 19 | 1 in 2,941 |
| Massachusetts | #487 | 8 | 1 in 3,751 |
| Virginia | #502 | 12 | 1 in 3,463 |
| New Jersey | #521 | 12 | 1 in 3,567 |
| New York | #646 | 22 | 1 in 4,829 |
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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 Jax
- 29 spots since 2024 (#313 → #342)
- 96 spots since 2020 (#246 → #342)
- 127 spots since 2015 (#215 → #342)
- Biggest jump: 267 spots in 2009 (#693 → #426)
- Biggest drop: 29 spots in 2025 (#313 → #342)
- Debuted 1995
- Peaked 2014 at #208 (1,855 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 20 yrs · run 2007–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,028 boys born in 2015 were named Jax (0.10%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,777 boys born in 2025 (0.06%)
- Its best rank, #208 in 2014, was only 1 in 1,036 (0.10%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 61.0% of all boys named Jax (15,305) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 249 | #1,342 (1999) | #3,314 |
| 2000s | 2,163 | #426 (2009) | #1,068 |
| 2010s | 15,305 | #208 (2014) | #251 |
| 2020s | 7,368 | #243 (2021) | #284 |
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.
Jax in 2010
Top girls' names in 2010
Top boys' names in 2010
More about 2010
girls
1,777,595 girls got a published name in 2010; 1 in 161,600 of them was named Jax, which outranked 50.7% of the 19,841 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #9,231Zoraya12
- #9,231Zuzu12
- #9,231Zykerria12
- #9,790Jax11
- #9,790Aasha11
- #9,790Abbigal11
- #9,790Abri11
- #10,451Aaliyan10
- #10,451Aalliyah10
- #10,451Aamna10
Tied with 660 names at #9,790; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,918,676 boys got a published name in 2010; 1 in 2,175 of them was named Jax, which outranked 97.6% 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).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.