Axl
Axl is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 216 births. Its best rank was 679th, in 2019.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 2160.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 2019377 births
- Best rank
- #679in 2019
- Since 1988
- 4,214people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,214 boys have been named Axl in the United States since 1988, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2019, with 377 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2017, and the 2010s alone account for 54%. It has spent 10 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 2019, its biggest year
Axl was the 679th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2019 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, William and Elijah. See all of 2019.
Names that rose and fell with Axl
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Pharaohpeak 2019
- Princetonpeak 2017
- Daxtonpeak 2019
- Advikpeak 2017
- Greysonpeak 2017
- Rikerpeak 2015
- Deckerpeak 2022
- Karterpeak 2019
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.