Axell
Axell was given to 75 boys in 2025, #2,007 among boys’ names; 1,125 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,120 Americans named Axell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 4 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Axell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Axell?
#2,007 among boys’ names, 2025
Axell rose from #3,991 in 2015 to #2,007 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 13.6 to 43.9 per million.
111 babies in 2021, the peak
Axell peaked in 2021, when 111 boys were given it, #1,566 among boys’ names. The 75 births of 2025 are 68% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 75 | #2,007 | 43.9 |
| 2024 | 90 | #1,809 | 52.2 |
| 2023 | 93 | #1,756 | 54.4 |
| 2022 | 107 | #1,627 | 61.3 |
| 2021 | 111 | #1,566 | 63.4 |
| 2020 | 88 | #1,745 | 51.0 |
| 2019 | 99 | #1,644 | 55.2 |
| 2018 | 76 | #1,936 | 41.8 |
| 2017 | 33 | #3,385 | 17.8 |
| 2016 | 26 | #4,000 | 13.7 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 26 | #3,991 | 13.6 |
| 2014 | 18 | #5,081 | 9.4 |
| 2013 | 17 | #5,183 | 9.0 |
| 2012 | 24 | #4,138 | 12.7 |
| 2011 | 31 | #3,439 | 16.3 |
| 2010 | 31 | #3,463 | 16.2 |
| 2009 | 14 | #6,124 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 20 | #4,725 | 9.8 |
| 2007 | 11 | #7,141 | 5.3 |
| 2006 | 22 | #4,232 | 10.7 |
| 2005 | 18 | #4,641 | 9.0 |
| 2004 | 13 | #5,836 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 17 | #4,623 | 8.6 |
| 2002 | 16 | #4,716 | 8.2 |
| 2001 | 24 | #3,515 | 12.4 |
| 2000 | 14 | #5,055 | 7.1 |
| 1999 | 6 | #8,796 | 3.1 |
| 1995 | 5 | #8,983 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Axell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Axell has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Axell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Axell, and how old are they?
1,120 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,125 Americans ever recorded as Axell. The median Axell alive today is 6 years old; half are between 4 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 550 people named Axell (13 women and girls, 537 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 578 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 257 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 853 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Axell born?
The states with the most babies named Axell are California, Arizona and Florida, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Arizona is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 6 | #2,236 | 1.0× |
| Arizona | 5 | #934 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 5 | #1,865 | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Axell with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Axell?
Axell is a less common spelling of Axel: SSA has recorded 1,125 Axell and 72,668 Axel since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 79,343 babies since 1880, Axell is the third most given (1.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 75 of their 4,484 babies (1.7%), again the third most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Axell
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Axell and names like it
- Compare Axell and AxelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAxell peaked in 2021.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Axell since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Axell.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Axell alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.