Meaning not yet researched.
Jaxton: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 410 in 2025. Its best rank was #345 in 2018.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #345 in 2018; #667 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jaxton in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#667 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2018, at #345.
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Jaxton: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 410 boys in 2025. Peak: #345 in 2018 · most boys in one year: 966 (2018).
In 2025, 410 US boys were named Jaxton, making it the 667th most common boys’ name of the year, down 56 places from #611 in 2024. That is 56 fewer than the 466 boys named Jaxton in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #345, reached in 2018. That year also had the most boys given the name: 966. For comparison, it was #410 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jaxton in 29 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1997 with 5 babies. In all, 11,035 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 6,673 babies named Jaxton.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 7,043 US boys were named Jaxton; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 966. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,166 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jaxton ranked highest in West Virginia in 2025, at #276 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Jaxtyn (2,213 babies since 1880) and Jaxston (937 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jaxten, Jaxtin and Jaxstyn 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: Jaxten (627), Jaxtin (392), Jaxstyn (132), Jaxsten (86), Jaxstin (39).
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 Jaxton 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 21 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | 7 | #276 | #147 |
| South Dakota | 5 | #276 | — |
| Mississippi | 11 | #296 | #259 |
| Arkansas | 9 | #375 | #261 |
| Tennessee | 19 | #420 | #239 |
| Ohio | 25 | #430 | #382 |
| Alabama | 11 | #469 | #256 |
| Missouri | 13 | #473 | #290 |
| Oklahoma | 9 | #485 | #202 |
| Michigan | 17 | #500 | #443 |
| Kentucky | 9 | #501 | #217 |
| North Carolina | 20 | #503 | #282 |
| Louisiana | 9 | #506 | #419 |
| Iowa | 6 | #532 | #345 |
| Wisconsin | 9 | #541 | #324 |
| Pennsylvania | 17 | #563 | #538 |
| South Carolina | 8 | #577 | #290 |
| Indiana | 11 | #599 | #272 |
| Kansas | 5 | #636 | #302 |
| Minnesota | 7 | #677 | #411 |
| Georgia | 14 | #688 | #450 |
| Virginia | 10 | #703 | #523 |
| Washington | 8 | #761 | #449 |
| Florida | 20 | #763 | #791 |
| Texas | 34 | #797 | #448 |
| New York | 17 | #818 | #879 |
| Illinois | 10 | #831 | #623 |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #838 | — |
| Arizona | 6 | #883 | #351 |
| California | 25 | #919 | #606 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 410 | #667 |
| 2024 | — | — | 466 | #611 |
| 2023 | — | — | 551 | #537 |
| 2022 | — | — | 651 | #472 |
| 2021 | — | — | 668 | #455 |
| 2020 | — | — | 828 | #375 |
| 2019 | — | — | 810 | #387 |
| 2018 | — | — | 966 | #345 |
| 2017 | — | — | 892 | #372 |
| 2016 | — | — | 801 | #396 |
| 2015 | — | — | 761 | #410 |
| 2014 | — | — | 649 | #457 |
| 2013 | — | — | 587 | #473 |
| 2012 | — | — | 519 | #511 |
| 2011 | — | — | 416 | #597 |
| 2010 | — | — | 272 | #799 |
| 2009 | — | — | 250 | #855 |
| 2008 | — | — | 153 | #1,172 |
| 2007 | — | — | 84 | #1,762 |
| 2006 | — | — | 66 | #2,023 |
| 2005 | — | — | 60 | #2,069 |
| 2004 | — | — | 53 | #2,201 |
| 2003 | — | — | 29 | #3,231 |
| 2002 | — | — | 34 | #2,786 |
| 2001 | — | — | 22 | #3,778 |
| 2000 | — | — | 14 | #5,151 |
| 1999 | — | — | 12 | #5,465 |
| 1998 | — | — | 6 | #8,972 |
| 1997 | — | — | 5 | #9,924 |
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).