Meaning not yet researched.
Saxon: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 39 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,812 in 1996.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,812 in 1996; #3,119 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Saxon in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,119 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1996, at #1,812.
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Saxon: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 39 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,812 in 1996 · most boys in one year: 52 (2021).
In 2025, 39 US boys were named Saxon, making it the 3,119th most common boys’ name of the year, down 27 places from #3,092 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 40 boys named Saxon in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,812, reached in 1996. The most boys given the name in a single year was 52, in 2021. For comparison, it was #2,852 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Saxon in 54 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 7 babies. In all, 1,737 US babies have been given the name, 9.6% of them girls and 90% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 468 babies named Saxon.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 452 US boys were named Saxon; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 52. In 2025 that was about 1 in 43,797 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Zaxon are summarised on this page.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Zaxon (35).
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 Saxon in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 39 | #3,119 |
| 2024 | — | — | 40 | #3,092 |
| 2023 | — | — | 35 | #3,404 |
| 2022 | — | — | 51 | #2,641 |
| 2021 | — | — | 52 | #2,550 |
| 2020 | — | — | 43 | #2,833 |
| 2019 | — | — | 50 | #2,617 |
| 2018 | 8 | #12,311 | 47 | #2,664 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,875 | 47 | #2,665 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,923 | 48 | #2,616 |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,675 | 42 | #2,852 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,776 | 44 | #2,742 |
| 2013 | — | — | 43 | #2,756 |
| 2012 | — | — | 32 | #3,437 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,441 | 34 | #3,292 |
| 2010 | — | — | 44 | #2,780 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,701 | 49 | #2,581 |
| 2008 | 6 | #17,129 | 42 | #2,872 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,488 | 43 | #2,800 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,867 | 45 | #2,650 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,668 | 28 | #3,513 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,733 | 27 | #3,523 |
| 2003 | 8 | #12,203 | 27 | #3,429 |
| 2002 | 6 | #15,061 | 31 | #3,006 |
| 2001 | — | — | 41 | #2,421 |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,113 | 44 | #2,247 |
| 1999 | — | — | 34 | #2,599 |
| 1998 | — | — | 25 | #3,171 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,405 | 32 | #2,539 |
| 1996 | — | — | 51 | #1,812 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,529 | 30 | #2,546 |
| 1994 | — | — | 48 | #1,817 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,307 | 41 | #1,996 |
| 1992 | — | — | 43 | #1,909 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,784 | 40 | #1,946 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,973 | 18 | #3,436 |
| 1989 | — | — | 24 | #2,676 |
| 1988 | — | — | 23 | #2,584 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,594 | 17 | #3,053 |
| 1986 | — | — | 19 | #2,768 |
| 1985 | — | — | 11 | #4,003 |
| 1984 | — | — | 6 | #6,191 |
| 1983 | — | — | 7 | #5,382 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #7,096 |
| 1978 | — | — | 6 | #5,646 |
| 1972 | — | — | 8 | #3,909 |
| 1969 | — | — | 5 | #4,919 |
| 1962 | — | — | 5 | #4,533 |
| 1954 | — | — | 5 | #4,288 |
| 1918 | 7 | #4,228 | — | — |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,515 | — | — |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,333 | — | — |
| 1915 | 6 | #4,193 | — | — |
| 1914 | 7 | #3,135 | — | — |
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).