Meaning not yet researched.
Jax: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 961 in 2025. Its best rank was #208 in 2014.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #208 in 2014; #342 in 2025. About 99% of babies named Jax in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#342 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2014, at #208.
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Jax: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 961 boys in 2025. Peak: #208 in 2014 · most boys in one year: 1,865 (2015).
In 2025, 961 US boys were named Jax, making it the 342nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 29 places from #313 in 2024. That is 134 fewer than the 1,095 boys named Jax in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #208, reached in 2014. The most boys given the name in a single year was 1,865, in 2015. For comparison, it was #215 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jax in 31 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1995 with 5 babies. In all, 25,309 US babies have been given the name, 0.9% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 15,454 babies named Jax.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 14,273 US boys were named Jax; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 1,813. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,777 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jax ranked highest in South Dakota in 2025, at #160 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Jaxon (114,055 babies since 1880) and Jaxsen (1,948 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ajax, Jaxs and Jaxe 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: Ajax (452), Jaxs (44), Jaxe (6), Jaks (5).
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 Jax 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 10 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Dakota | 9 | #160 | #156 |
| North Dakota | 8 | #162 | #83 |
| Utah | 34 | #163 | #126 |
| Iowa | 21 | #198 | #145 |
| Nevada | 14 | #221 | #230 |
| Idaho | 12 | #222 | #103 |
| Minnesota | 25 | #245 | #153 |
| Maine | 5 | #247 | #257 |
| Arizona | 30 | #269 | #199 |
| Louisiana | 19 | #270 | #147 |
| Nebraska | 9 | #277 | #164 |
| Virginia | 31 | #277 | #256 |
| Oregon | 15 | #287 | #234 |
| Missouri | 23 | #299 | #177 |
| Tennessee | 29 | #303 | #267 |
| California | 121 | #305 | #229 |
| Florida | 61 | #321 | #210 |
| Kentucky | 16 | #322 | #192 |
| Washington | 23 | #330 | #231 |
| Michigan | 27 | #333 | #222 |
| West Virginia | 5 | #347 | #141 |
| Pennsylvania | 32 | #349 | #253 |
| Maryland | 15 | #354 | #273 |
| Ohio | 32 | #356 | #197 |
| Indiana | 21 | #357 | #206 |
| New Jersey | 21 | #386 | #207 |
| New Mexico | 5 | #394 | #211 |
| Georgia | 29 | #399 | #272 |
| Wisconsin | 13 | #400 | #166 |
| Texas | 88 | #404 | #215 |
| Arkansas | 8 | #413 | #180 |
| Colorado | 14 | #427 | #219 |
| North Carolina | 25 | #438 | #255 |
| Oklahoma | 10 | #439 | #138 |
| Kansas | 8 | #444 | #169 |
| Alabama | 11 | #468 | #319 |
| South Carolina | 9 | #522 | #239 |
| Massachusetts | 9 | #531 | #285 |
| New York | 29 | #551 | #253 |
| Mississippi | 5 | #565 | #319 |
| Illinois | 16 | #585 | #215 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,071 | 961 | #342 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,711 | 1,095 | #313 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,810 | 1,161 | #287 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,837 | 1,272 | #271 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,218 | 1,455 | #243 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,719 | 1,424 | #246 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,506 | 1,600 | #237 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,330 | 1,767 | #214 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,012 | 1,725 | #222 |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,062 | 1,813 | #215 |
| 2015 | 38 | #3,946 | 1,865 | #215 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,805 | 1,855 | #208 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,397 | 1,685 | #222 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,661 | 1,123 | #305 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,710 | 990 | #321 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,065 | 882 | #348 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,063 | 675 | #426 |
| 2008 | — | — | 343 | #693 |
| 2007 | — | — | 262 | #816 |
| 2006 | — | — | 183 | #1,005 |
| 2005 | — | — | 174 | #993 |
| 2004 | — | — | 162 | #1,015 |
| 2003 | — | — | 117 | #1,240 |
| 2002 | — | — | 90 | #1,438 |
| 2001 | — | — | 84 | #1,467 |
| 2000 | — | — | 73 | #1,620 |
| 1999 | — | — | 89 | #1,348 |
| 1998 | — | — | 74 | #1,493 |
| 1997 | — | — | 59 | #1,680 |
| 1996 | — | — | 22 | #3,247 |
| 1995 | — | — | 5 | #9,470 |
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).