Axl
Axl was given to 190 boys in 2025, #1,123 among boys’ names; 4,413 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,370 Americans named Axl and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 5 and 12.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Axl by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Axl mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Axl is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Axl?
#1,123 among boys’ names, 2025
Axl fell from #761 in 2015 to #1,123 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.16 to 0.11 per 1,000.
379 babies in 2019, the peak
Axl peaked in 2019, when 379 boys were given it, #677 among boys’ names. The 190 births of 2025 are 50% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 190 | #1,123 | 0.11 |
| 2024 | 218 | #1,023 | 0.13 |
| 2023 | 259 | #897 | 0.15 |
| 2022 | 276 | #874 | 0.16 |
| 2021 | 281 | #845 | 0.16 |
| 2020 | 318 | #756 | 0.18 |
| 2019 | 379 | #677 | 0.21 |
| 2018 | 322 | #740 | 0.18 |
| 2017 | 339 | #717 | 0.18 |
| 2016 | 306 | #778 | 0.16 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 313 | #761 | 0.16 |
| 2014 | 270 | #835 | 0.14 |
| 2013 | 113 | #1,460 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 102 | #1,551 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 74 | #1,887 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 61 | #2,172 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 61 | #2,184 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 46 | #2,686 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 52 | #2,448 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 40 | #2,836 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 38 | #2,803 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 29 | #3,286 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 29 | #3,193 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 17 | #4,516 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 26 | #3,324 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 21 | #3,771 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 14 | #4,779 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 10 | #5,862 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 10 | #5,679 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 12 | #4,902 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 24 | #2,922 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 22 | #3,108 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 29 | #2,511 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 29 | #2,465 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 23 | #2,828 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 25 | #2,627 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 21 | #2,910 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 9 | #4,811 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Axl a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Axl has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 38 years of records.
Girls and boys named Axl: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Axl, and how old are they?
4,370 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,413 Americans ever recorded as Axl. The median Axl alive today is 8 years old; half are between 5 and 12.
The 2020 Census counted 2,542 people named Axl (16 women and girls, 2,526 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,921 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 186 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 622 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,560 |
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 Axl born?
The states with the most babies named Axl are Texas, California and Indiana, with 35% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Indiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 25 | #953 | 1.0× |
| California | 12 | #1,449 | 0.8× |
| Indiana | 11 | #585 | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 10 | #807 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,364 | 0.8× |
| Tennessee | 8 | #781 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,110 | 0.7× |
| Virginia | 7 | #883 | 0.6× |
| Colorado | 7 | #686 | 0.7× |
| New York | 6 | #1,595 | 0.5× |
Where Axl is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Axl is most over-represented in Indiana: since 1988 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Axl with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 79,343 babies since 1880, Axl is the second most given (5.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 190 of their 4,484 babies (4.2%), again the second 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 Axl
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 Axl and names like it
- Compare Axl and AxelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAxl peaked in 2019.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Axl since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Axl.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Axl alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.