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Pax: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 72 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,967 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,967 in 2024; #2,074 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Pax in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,074 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #1,967.
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Pax: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 72 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,967 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 80 (2024).
In 2025, 72 US boys were named Pax, making it the 2,074th most common boys’ name of the year, down 107 places from #1,967 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 80 boys named Pax in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,967, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 80. For comparison, it was #2,160 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Pax in 21 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1974 with 7 babies. In all, 1,098 US babies have been given the name, 4.9% of them girls and 95% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 599 babies named Pax.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 687 US boys were named Pax; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 80. In 2025 that was about 1 in 23,723 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Pax ranked highest in Utah in 2025, at #784 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state.
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US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 5 | #784 | — |
| California | 9 | #1,788 | #1,606 |
| Texas | 7 | #2,232 | #2,319 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 72 | #2,074 |
| 2024 | — | — | 80 | #1,967 |
| 2023 | 5 | #17,017 | 62 | #2,287 |
| 2022 | — | — | 62 | #2,313 |
| 2021 | — | — | 72 | #2,052 |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,131 | 62 | #2,226 |
| 2019 | 6 | #15,145 | 66 | #2,166 |
| 2018 | 8 | #12,230 | 75 | #1,973 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,820 | 63 | #2,166 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,932 | 73 | #1,985 |
| 2015 | 7 | #14,150 | 64 | #2,160 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,559 | 51 | #2,483 |
| 2013 | — | — | 47 | #2,589 |
| 2012 | — | — | 47 | #2,619 |
| 2011 | — | — | 37 | #3,093 |
| 2010 | — | — | 34 | #3,289 |
| 2009 | — | — | 41 | #2,934 |
| 2008 | — | — | 15 | #5,988 |
| 2007 | — | — | 9 | #8,727 |
| 1975 | — | — | 5 | #6,070 |
| 1974 | — | — | 7 | #4,504 |
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).