Meaning not yet researched.
Aksel: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 155 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,029 in 2018.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,029 in 2018; #1,267 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Aksel in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,267 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2018, at #1,029.
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Aksel: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 155 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,029 in 2018 · most boys in one year: 198 (2018).
In 2025, 155 US boys were named Aksel, making it the 1,267th most common boys’ name of the year, up 159 places from #1,426 in 2024. That is 27 more than the 128 boys named Aksel in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,029, reached in 2018. That year also had the most boys given the name: 198. For comparison, it was #1,359 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Aksel in 32 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1989 with 10 babies. In all, 2,561 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,284 babies named Aksel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,539 US boys were named Aksel; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 198. In 2025 that was about 1 in 11,020 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Aksel ranked highest in Colorado in 2025, at #572 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Axel (72,668 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Aksil are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Aksil (86).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Aksel in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 39 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colorado | 9 | #572 | — |
| Maryland | 6 | #706 | — |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #785 | #765 |
| Minnesota | 5 | #814 | #582 |
| Arizona | 6 | #844 | — |
| Missouri | 5 | #871 | — |
| California | 21 | #1,012 | #1,373 |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,026 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,098 | — |
| Texas | 18 | #1,169 | #1,539 |
| New York | 9 | #1,204 | #1,352 |
| Florida | 5 | #1,839 | #1,276 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 155 | #1,267 |
| 2024 | — | — | 128 | #1,426 |
| 2023 | — | — | 149 | #1,288 |
| 2022 | — | — | 124 | #1,457 |
| 2021 | — | — | 153 | #1,245 |
| 2020 | — | — | 163 | #1,177 |
| 2019 | — | — | 146 | #1,277 |
| 2018 | — | — | 198 | #1,029 |
| 2017 | — | — | 146 | #1,252 |
| 2016 | — | — | 177 | #1,105 |
| 2015 | — | — | 128 | #1,359 |
| 2014 | — | — | 125 | #1,362 |
| 2013 | — | — | 67 | #2,022 |
| 2012 | — | — | 85 | #1,756 |
| 2011 | — | — | 93 | #1,635 |
| 2010 | — | — | 119 | #1,399 |
| 2009 | — | — | 54 | #2,381 |
| 2008 | — | — | 49 | #2,543 |
| 2007 | — | — | 47 | #2,603 |
| 2006 | — | — | 47 | #2,543 |
| 2005 | — | — | 35 | #2,962 |
| 2004 | — | — | 29 | #3,287 |
| 2003 | — | — | 38 | #2,621 |
| 2002 | — | — | 16 | #4,709 |
| 2001 | — | — | 22 | #3,722 |
| 2000 | — | — | 21 | #3,768 |
| 1999 | — | — | 13 | #5,045 |
| 1998 | — | — | 6 | #8,496 |
| 1997 | — | — | 5 | #9,298 |
| 1994 | — | — | 6 | #7,792 |
| 1992 | — | — | 7 | #6,681 |
| 1989 | — | — | 10 | #4,816 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).