Meaning not yet researched.
Axton: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 262 in 2025. Its best rank was #594 in 2018.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #594 in 2018; #906 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Axton in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#906 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2018, at #594.
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Axton: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 262 boys in 2025. Peak: #594 in 2018 · most boys in one year: 464 (2021).
In 2025, 262 US boys were named Axton, making it the 906th most common boys’ name of the year, down 72 places from #834 in 2024. That is 35 fewer than the 297 boys named Axton in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #594, reached in 2018. The most boys given the name in a single year was 464, in 2021. For comparison, it was #701 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Axton in 32 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1988 with 7 babies. In all, 5,677 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 3,035 babies named Axton.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,954 US boys were named Axton; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 464. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,519 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Axton ranked highest in West Virginia in 2025, at #257 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Axtyn, Axten and Axtin 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Axtyn (373), Axten (214), Axtin (72), Axston (29).
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 Axton 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 27 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | 7 | #257 | #332 |
| Kentucky | 12 | #405 | #337 |
| Nebraska | 5 | #439 | #436 |
| Oklahoma | 9 | #468 | #311 |
| Oregon | 7 | #480 | #559 |
| Arkansas | 6 | #492 | #335 |
| Kansas | 6 | #529 | #462 |
| Tennessee | 12 | #595 | #343 |
| Utah | 5 | #711 | #398 |
| Ohio | 12 | #713 | #653 |
| Missouri | 7 | #715 | #743 |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #745 | #856 |
| Colorado | 6 | #765 | — |
| Indiana | 7 | #778 | #510 |
| Georgia | 11 | #797 | #738 |
| Michigan | 8 | #834 | #984 |
| Arizona | 6 | #847 | #564 |
| North Carolina | 9 | #877 | #713 |
| Texas | 23 | #1,015 | #735 |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,038 | — |
| Florida | 12 | #1,062 | #1,100 |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,146 | #902 |
| California | 17 | #1,158 | #1,164 |
| New York | 6 | #1,596 | #1,253 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 262 | #906 |
| 2024 | — | — | 297 | #834 |
| 2023 | — | — | 393 | #686 |
| 2022 | — | — | 429 | #642 |
| 2021 | — | — | 464 | #600 |
| 2020 | — | — | 451 | #606 |
| 2019 | 5 | #15,873 | 441 | #620 |
| 2018 | — | — | 460 | #594 |
| 2017 | — | — | 418 | #624 |
| 2016 | — | — | 339 | #723 |
| 2015 | — | — | 359 | #701 |
| 2014 | — | — | 310 | #758 |
| 2013 | — | — | 247 | #862 |
| 2012 | — | — | 222 | #925 |
| 2011 | — | — | 127 | #1,332 |
| 2010 | — | — | 107 | #1,517 |
| 2009 | — | — | 85 | #1,774 |
| 2008 | — | — | 62 | #2,161 |
| 2007 | — | — | 47 | #2,610 |
| 2006 | — | — | 29 | #3,527 |
| 2005 | — | — | 26 | #3,627 |
| 2004 | — | — | 16 | #5,029 |
| 2003 | — | — | 14 | #5,296 |
| 2001 | — | — | 8 | #7,593 |
| 2000 | — | — | 9 | #6,895 |
| 1999 | — | — | 7 | #7,942 |
| 1998 | — | — | 5 | #9,761 |
| 1997 | — | — | 9 | #6,136 |
| 1996 | — | — | 11 | #5,217 |
| 1994 | — | — | 6 | #7,862 |
| 1992 | — | — | 5 | #8,544 |
| 1988 | — | — | 7 | #5,797 |
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).