Axle
Axle was given to 95 boys in 2025, #1,709 among boys’ names; 1,816 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,800 Americans named Axle 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 11.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Axle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Axle?
#1,709 among boys’ names, 2025
Axle fell from #1,369 in 2015 to #1,709 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 66.3 to 55.6 per million.
150 babies in 2021, the peak
Axle peaked in 2021, when 150 boys were given it, #1,267 among boys’ names. The 95 births of 2025 are 63% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 95 | #1,709 | 55.6 |
| 2024 | 94 | #1,753 | 54.6 |
| 2023 | 128 | #1,420 | 74.8 |
| 2022 | 129 | #1,421 | 73.9 |
| 2021 | 150 | #1,267 | 85.7 |
| 2020 | 129 | #1,369 | 74.7 |
| 2019 | 148 | #1,266 | 82.5 |
| 2018 | 123 | #1,419 | 67.7 |
| 2017 | 136 | #1,321 | 73.5 |
| 2016 | 133 | #1,341 | 70.1 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 127 | #1,369 | 66.3 |
| 2014 | 109 | #1,486 | 56.7 |
| 2013 | 61 | #2,164 | 32.2 |
| 2012 | 59 | #2,211 | 31.1 |
| 2011 | 40 | #2,908 | 21.1 |
| 2010 | 35 | #3,182 | 18.2 |
| 2009 | 23 | #4,292 | 11.6 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,079 | 3.9 |
| 2007 | 17 | #5,225 | 8.2 |
| 2006 | 12 | #6,491 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 13 | #5,897 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 5 | #11,523 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 5 | #11,044 | 2.5 |
| 1997 | 5 | #9,389 | 2.7 |
| 1995 | 6 | #7,876 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 5 | #8,898 | 2.6 |
| 1990 | 9 | #5,406 | 4.4 |
| 1989 | 12 | #4,279 | 6.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Axle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Axle 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 Axle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Axle, and how old are they?
1,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,816 Americans ever recorded as Axle. The median Axle alive today is 8 years old; half are between 5 and 11.
The 2020 Census counted 1,210 people named Axle (16 women and girls, 1,194 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,114 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 31 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 220 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,550 |
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 Axle born?
The states with the most babies named Axle are Texas, Florida and Kentucky, with 58% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Kentucky is not among the ten states with the most births.
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 Axle with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Axle
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 Axle and names like it
- Compare Axle and AxtonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAxle peaked in 2021.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Axle since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Axle.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Axle alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.