Meaning not yet researched.
Daxton: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 834 in 2025. Its best rank was #279 in 2019.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #279 in 2019; #379 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Daxton in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#379 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2019, at #279.
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Daxton: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 834 boys in 2025. Peak: #279 in 2019 · most boys in one year: 1,276 (2019).
In 2025, 834 US boys were named Daxton, making it the 379th most common boys’ name of the year, up 32 places from #411 in 2024. That is 49 more than the 785 boys named Daxton in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #279, reached in 2019. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,276. For comparison, it was #381 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Daxton in 47 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1970 with 5 babies. In all, 14,934 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 7,355 babies named Daxton.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 10,234 US boys were named Daxton; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 1,276. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,048 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Daxton ranked highest in Kentucky in 2025, at #156 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Daxtyn (759 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Daxten, Daxtin and Daxston 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: Daxten (425), Daxtin (238), Daxston (63), Dakston (20).
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 Daxton 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 9 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | 35 | #156 | #410 |
| North Dakota | 7 | #176 | #207 |
| New Hampshire | 7 | #191 | — |
| Oklahoma | 26 | #191 | #131 |
| Utah | 28 | #195 | #82 |
| Idaho | 13 | #205 | #146 |
| Arkansas | 17 | #208 | #187 |
| Nebraska | 12 | #216 | #271 |
| Missouri | 32 | #222 | #295 |
| Mississippi | 14 | #222 | #210 |
| Alabama | 25 | #227 | #316 |
| Louisiana | 21 | #241 | #465 |
| Maine | 5 | #241 | #221 |
| Ohio | 50 | #254 | #307 |
| Tennessee | 35 | #256 | #404 |
| Iowa | 15 | #263 | #191 |
| Wisconsin | 22 | #264 | #319 |
| West Virginia | 7 | #268 | — |
| Kansas | 13 | #280 | #162 |
| Indiana | 28 | #285 | #312 |
| Michigan | 33 | #295 | #368 |
| Pennsylvania | 39 | #296 | #448 |
| Nevada | 9 | #331 | #337 |
| Maryland | 15 | #349 | — |
| Oregon | 11 | #358 | #278 |
| New Mexico | 5 | #378 | — |
| South Carolina | 13 | #390 | #537 |
| Minnesota | 14 | #397 | #436 |
| Georgia | 25 | #443 | #430 |
| North Carolina | 22 | #480 | #384 |
| Connecticut | 5 | #510 | — |
| Florida | 32 | #546 | #521 |
| Massachusetts | 8 | #564 | #647 |
| Texas | 54 | #581 | #437 |
| Illinois | 15 | #612 | #512 |
| California | 45 | #628 | #603 |
| Colorado | 8 | #637 | #338 |
| Arizona | 9 | #685 | #409 |
| Washington | 9 | #700 | #367 |
| Virginia | 9 | #749 | #434 |
| New York | 17 | #806 | #1,177 |
| New Jersey | 6 | #947 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 834 | #379 |
| 2024 | — | — | 785 | #411 |
| 2023 | — | — | 935 | #350 |
| 2022 | — | — | 1,014 | #333 |
| 2021 | — | — | 1,103 | #300 |
| 2020 | — | — | 1,173 | #288 |
| 2019 | — | — | 1,276 | #279 |
| 2018 | — | — | 1,182 | #296 |
| 2017 | — | — | 1,006 | #338 |
| 2016 | — | — | 926 | #359 |
| 2015 | — | — | 850 | #381 |
| 2014 | — | — | 592 | #481 |
| 2013 | — | — | 469 | #563 |
| 2012 | — | — | 391 | #621 |
| 2011 | — | — | 358 | #656 |
| 2010 | — | — | 305 | #744 |
| 2009 | — | — | 312 | #742 |
| 2008 | — | — | 191 | #1,009 |
| 2007 | — | — | 195 | #997 |
| 2006 | — | — | 131 | #1,277 |
| 2005 | — | — | 159 | #1,046 |
| 2004 | — | — | 114 | #1,305 |
| 2003 | — | — | 86 | #1,500 |
| 2002 | — | — | 71 | #1,662 |
| 2001 | — | — | 69 | #1,681 |
| 2000 | — | — | 64 | #1,745 |
| 1999 | — | — | 42 | #2,206 |
| 1998 | — | — | 49 | #1,965 |
| 1997 | — | — | 39 | #2,206 |
| 1996 | — | — | 25 | #2,943 |
| 1995 | — | — | 35 | #2,258 |
| 1994 | — | — | 30 | #2,519 |
| 1993 | — | — | 15 | #4,067 |
| 1992 | — | — | 20 | #3,248 |
| 1991 | — | — | 8 | #6,073 |
| 1990 | — | — | 11 | #4,745 |
| 1988 | — | — | 6 | #6,601 |
| 1987 | — | — | 5 | #7,207 |
| 1979 | — | — | 5 | #6,262 |
| 1978 | — | — | 6 | #5,202 |
| 1977 | — | — | 8 | #4,253 |
| 1976 | — | — | 6 | #5,069 |
| 1975 | — | — | 6 | #4,939 |
| 1974 | — | — | 7 | #4,278 |
| 1973 | — | — | 9 | #3,502 |
| 1971 | — | — | 6 | #4,516 |
| 1970 | — | — | 5 | #4,866 |
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).