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Jaxson

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Jaxson is ranked 171st among boys in 2024 (2,159 births). Its best rank was 76th, in 2018.

Rank in 2024
#171down 33 from 2023
Births in 2024
2,1590.13% of boys
Peak year
20155,068 births
Best rank
#76in 2018
Since 1991
66,136people given the name
Babies named Jaxson, by year of birthboys
02.5k5k7.5k10k18801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

66,136 boys have been named Jaxson in the United States since 1991, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2015, with 5,068 births — 0.26% of all boys recorded that year.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 85 → 171).

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2016, and the 2010s alone account for 64%. It has spent 26 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 8 of them in the top 100.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadeboys named Jaxson
1990s413
2000s7,549
2010s42,389
2020s15,785

In 2015, its biggest year

Jaxson was the 84th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2015 were Noah, Liam, Mason, Jacob and William. See all of 2015.

Names that rose and fell with Jaxson

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.