Axen — boys' name
26 babies named Axen in U.S. Social Security records since 2018, with the highest year being 2020. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
62% of everyone ever named Axen was born in this single decade.
6 babies were named Axen in 2020 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Axen
The Social Security Administration has registered 26 babies named Axen between 2018 and 2022, spanning 5 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Axen currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 2020, when 6 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Axen performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 16 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Axen shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade.
No etymological entry is currently available for Axen 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 26 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.
Axen at a glance
Last recorded 2022Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Axen popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–2018
- Peak year (2020)
- 6
- Annual births at peak — across 5 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2022.
26 total births across 5 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2020 with 6 births in a single year.
Axen by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2020s
- 16 births that decade — 62% of Axen's all-time total
Axen decade highlights
- Peak decade 16 births
- Runner-up 10 births
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2020s was Axen's strongest decade
16 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 62% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 2018–2022 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.