Meaning not yet researched.
Dax: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 393 in 2025. Its best rank was #413 in 2019.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #413 in 2019; #692 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Dax in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#692 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2019, at #413.
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Dax: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 393 boys in 2025. Peak: #413 in 2019 · most boys in one year: 749 (2019).
In 2025, 393 US boys were named Dax, making it the 692nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 51 places from #641 in 2024. That is 45 fewer than the 438 boys named Dax in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #413, reached in 2019. That year also had the most boys given the name: 749. For comparison, it was #551 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dax in 59 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1967 with 10 babies. In all, 11,934 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 5,007 babies named Dax.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,985 US boys were named Dax; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 749. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,346 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Dax ranked highest in Nebraska in 2025, at #304 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Daks are summarised on this page.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Daks (6).
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 Dax 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 18 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nebraska | 8 | #304 | — |
| Nevada | 9 | #330 | #404 |
| Wisconsin | 14 | #378 | #348 |
| Idaho | 6 | #387 | #226 |
| Ohio | 27 | #398 | #539 |
| Kansas | 9 | #400 | #318 |
| Iowa | 8 | #411 | #263 |
| Minnesota | 12 | #453 | #435 |
| Alabama | 11 | #457 | — |
| Louisiana | 10 | #462 | #464 |
| Missouri | 13 | #465 | #378 |
| Oregon | 7 | #485 | #507 |
| Kentucky | 9 | #491 | — |
| Oklahoma | 8 | #516 | #237 |
| Arizona | 13 | #536 | #497 |
| Arkansas | 5 | #575 | #366 |
| Michigan | 13 | #608 | #564 |
| Utah | 6 | #635 | #198 |
| Colorado | 8 | #636 | #292 |
| Illinois | 14 | #648 | #583 |
| Pennsylvania | 13 | #675 | #513 |
| Florida | 22 | #710 | #608 |
| Indiana | 8 | #725 | #636 |
| Washington | 8 | #747 | #647 |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #809 | #646 |
| Virginia | 8 | #821 | #816 |
| California | 27 | #866 | #622 |
| Texas | 28 | #898 | #558 |
| Georgia | 9 | #931 | #802 |
| Tennessee | 6 | #949 | #946 |
| North Carolina | 8 | #956 | #632 |
| New York | 12 | #1,005 | #963 |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,064 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 393 | #692 |
| 2024 | — | — | 438 | #641 |
| 2023 | — | — | 520 | #559 |
| 2022 | — | — | 702 | #443 |
| 2021 | — | — | 647 | #462 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,700 | 635 | #469 |
| 2019 | — | — | 749 | #413 |
| 2018 | — | — | 662 | #451 |
| 2017 | — | — | 665 | #455 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,896 | 574 | #518 |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,961 | 520 | #551 |
| 2014 | — | — | 450 | #600 |
| 2013 | — | — | 382 | #642 |
| 2012 | — | — | 379 | #634 |
| 2011 | — | — | 322 | #711 |
| 2010 | — | — | 293 | #764 |
| 2009 | — | — | 284 | #792 |
| 2008 | — | — | 289 | #769 |
| 2007 | — | — | 213 | #932 |
| 2006 | — | — | 163 | #1,081 |
| 2005 | — | — | 152 | #1,083 |
| 2004 | — | — | 120 | #1,254 |
| 2003 | — | — | 97 | #1,382 |
| 2002 | — | — | 101 | #1,319 |
| 2001 | — | — | 81 | #1,504 |
| 2000 | — | — | 86 | #1,435 |
| 1999 | — | — | 86 | #1,375 |
| 1998 | — | — | 58 | #1,745 |
| 1997 | — | — | 74 | #1,458 |
| 1996 | — | — | 50 | #1,822 |
| 1995 | — | — | 52 | #1,714 |
| 1994 | — | — | 54 | #1,672 |
| 1993 | — | — | 35 | #2,223 |
| 1992 | — | — | 36 | #2,138 |
| 1991 | — | — | 42 | #1,873 |
| 1990 | — | — | 33 | #2,185 |
| 1989 | — | — | 32 | #2,165 |
| 1988 | — | — | 46 | #1,579 |
| 1987 | — | — | 32 | #1,945 |
| 1986 | — | — | 41 | #1,598 |
| 1985 | — | — | 33 | #1,804 |
| 1984 | — | — | 33 | #1,731 |
| 1983 | — | — | 39 | #1,542 |
| 1982 | — | — | 48 | #1,366 |
| 1981 | — | — | 45 | #1,417 |
| 1980 | — | — | 62 | #1,155 |
| 1979 | — | — | 62 | #1,139 |
| 1978 | — | — | 91 | #903 |
| 1977 | — | — | 115 | #797 |
| 1976 | — | — | 102 | #828 |
| 1975 | — | — | 115 | #772 |
| 1974 | — | — | 100 | #802 |
| 1973 | — | — | 127 | #715 |
| 1972 | — | — | 99 | #805 |
| 1971 | — | — | 120 | #746 |
| 1970 | — | — | 87 | #863 |
| 1969 | — | — | 20 | #1,873 |
| 1968 | — | — | 22 | #1,702 |
| 1967 | — | — | 10 | #2,639 |
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).