Axton
Axton was given to 262 boys in 2025, #906 among boys’ names; 5,677 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,630 Americans named Axton 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 Axton by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Axton mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Axton is “a male given name transferred from the surname.” Its etymology gives the sense “stone” (stan).
From Axton, Kent, Old English Acca (a personal name) + Old English stan (“stone”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Axton?
#906 among boys’ names, 2025
Axton fell from #701 in 2015 to #906 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.19 to 0.15 per 1,000.
464 babies in 2021, the peak
Axton peaked in 2021, when 464 boys were given it, #600 among boys’ names. The 262 births of 2025 are 56% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 262 | #906 | 0.15 |
| 2024 | 297 | #834 | 0.17 |
| 2023 | 393 | #686 | 0.23 |
| 2022 | 429 | #642 | 0.25 |
| 2021 | 464 | #600 | 0.27 |
| 2020 | 451 | #606 | 0.26 |
| 2019 | 441 | #620 | 0.25 |
| 2018 | 460 | #594 | 0.25 |
| 2017 | 418 | #624 | 0.23 |
| 2016 | 339 | #723 | 0.18 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 359 | #701 | 0.19 |
| 2014 | 310 | #758 | 0.16 |
| 2013 | 247 | #862 | 0.13 |
| 2012 | 222 | #925 | 0.12 |
| 2011 | 127 | #1,332 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 107 | #1,517 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 85 | #1,773 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 62 | #2,160 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 47 | #2,610 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 29 | #3,525 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 26 | #3,623 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 16 | #5,024 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 14 | #5,290 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 8 | #7,586 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 9 | #6,887 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 7 | #7,935 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 5 | #9,752 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 9 | #6,130 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 11 | #5,210 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 6 | #7,856 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 5 | #8,536 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 7 | #5,791 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Axton a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Axton has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 32 years of records.
Girls and boys named Axton: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Axton, and how old are they?
5,630 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,677 Americans ever recorded as Axton. The median Axton alive today is 8 years old; half are between 5 and 11.
The 2020 Census counted 3,076 people named Axton (18 women and girls, 3,058 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,468 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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 | 28 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 764 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,840 |
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 Axton born?
The states with the most babies named Axton are Texas, California and Ohio, with 24% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 23 | #1,015 | 0.9× |
| California | 17 | #1,158 | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 12 | #713 | 1.1× |
| Tennessee | 12 | #595 | 1.4× |
| Florida | 12 | #1,062 | 0.5× |
| Kentucky | 12 | #405 | 1.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #745 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 11 | #797 | 0.7× |
| Oklahoma | 9 | #468 | 2.6× |
| North Carolina | 9 | #877 | 0.8× |
Where Axton is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Axton is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1988 it was given 2.6 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 Axton 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 6,464 babies since 1880, Axton is the most given (88% of them). In 2025 it was given to 262 of their 323 babies (81%), again the 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 Axton
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 Axton and names like it
- Compare Axton and AxtynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAxton peaked in 2021.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Axton since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Axton: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Axton.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Axton alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.