Meaning not yet researched.
Jaxson: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 2,365 in 2025. Its best rank was #76 in 2018.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #76 in 2018; #156 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jaxson in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#156 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2018, at #76.
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Jaxson: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 2,365 boys in 2025. Peak: #76 in 2018 · most boys in one year: 5,070 (2015).
In 2025, 2,365 US boys were named Jaxson, making it the 156th most common boys’ name of the year, up 15 places from #171 in 2024. That is 195 more than the 2,170 boys named Jaxson in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #76, reached in 2018. The most boys given the name in a single year was 5,070, in 2015. For comparison, it was #84 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jaxson in 35 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1991 with 13 babies. In all, 68,669 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 42,488 babies named Jaxson.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 37,241 US boys were named Jaxson; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 4,916. In 2025 that was about 1 in 722 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jaxson ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #76 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 6 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Jackson (297,998 babies since 1880), Jaxon (114,055 babies since 1880), Jaxxon (3,930 babies since 1880) and Jaxsen (1,948 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Jaxson 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 5 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 34 | #76 | #112 |
| Rhode Island | 13 | #80 | #69 |
| West Virginia | 22 | #82 | #37 |
| New Hampshire | 17 | #91 | #51 |
| Vermont | 6 | #92 | #63 |
| Kentucky | 55 | #95 | #44 |
| Ohio | 123 | #108 | #40 |
| Delaware | 10 | #109 | #67 |
| Indiana | 70 | #115 | #50 |
| Iowa | 34 | #115 | #50 |
| Nevada | 26 | #120 | #74 |
| Pennsylvania | 104 | #122 | #70 |
| Connecticut | 31 | #123 | #106 |
| Tennessee | 76 | #124 | #63 |
| Virginia | 69 | #127 | #85 |
| Florida | 163 | #132 | #70 |
| Michigan | 75 | #134 | #63 |
| Missouri | 54 | #136 | #55 |
| Louisiana | 36 | #139 | #80 |
| New Mexico | 14 | #140 | #102 |
| Georgia | 84 | #140 | #94 |
| Wisconsin | 44 | #144 | #55 |
| Idaho | 19 | #148 | #97 |
| New York | 129 | #149 | #95 |
| Massachusetts | 48 | #149 | #93 |
| Maryland | 39 | #152 | #100 |
| New Jersey | 65 | #152 | #86 |
| Alaska | 6 | #153 | #68 |
| South Carolina | 37 | #159 | #74 |
| South Dakota | 9 | #161 | #107 |
| Washington | 52 | #163 | #99 |
| Alabama | 34 | #169 | #77 |
| Illinois | 70 | #170 | #89 |
| Arizona | 51 | #173 | #99 |
| Oregon | 24 | #176 | #71 |
| Colorado | 40 | #176 | #108 |
| North Carolina | 68 | #185 | #103 |
| Montana | 7 | #186 | #42 |
| Minnesota | 34 | #195 | #73 |
| Nebraska | 13 | #201 | #34 |
| Arkansas | 18 | #204 | #62 |
| Oklahoma | 24 | #205 | #93 |
| California | 181 | #208 | #131 |
| Texas | 189 | #208 | #118 |
| Kansas | 16 | #241 | #55 |
| Utah | 19 | #272 | #113 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 2,365 | #156 |
| 2024 | — | — | 2,170 | #171 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,708 | 2,572 | #138 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,744 | 3,185 | #119 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,870 | 3,695 | #102 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,524 | 4,184 | #85 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,822 | 4,518 | #83 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,429 | 4,770 | #76 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,013 | 4,866 | #79 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,417 | 4,916 | #82 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,444 | 5,070 | #84 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,686 | 4,947 | #85 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,575 | 4,463 | #92 |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,007 | 3,669 | #106 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,667 | 2,959 | #141 |
| 2010 | — | — | 2,223 | #172 |
| 2009 | — | — | 1,865 | #203 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,268 | 1,306 | #267 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,547 | 1,058 | #311 |
| 2006 | — | — | 768 | #389 |
| 2005 | — | — | 739 | #389 |
| 2004 | — | — | 554 | #462 |
| 2003 | — | — | 437 | #531 |
| 2002 | — | — | 373 | #581 |
| 2001 | — | — | 259 | #695 |
| 2000 | — | — | 191 | #841 |
| 1999 | — | — | 159 | #924 |
| 1998 | — | — | 92 | #1,297 |
| 1997 | — | — | 73 | #1,472 |
| 1996 | — | — | 28 | #2,711 |
| 1995 | — | — | 11 | #5,302 |
| 1994 | — | — | 17 | #3,814 |
| 1993 | — | — | 10 | #5,535 |
| 1992 | — | — | 10 | #5,403 |
| 1991 | — | — | 13 | #4,336 |
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).