Aksel — #1432 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Aksel

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,402 babies named Aksel between 1989 and 2024, spanning 36 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Aksel currently holds the #1432 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2018, when 198 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Aksel performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,283 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Aksel shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 327 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Minnesota. In total, SSA state-level files list Aksel in 26 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Aksel in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,402 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.