Daxton
Daxton was given to 834 boys in 2025, #379 among boys’ names; 14,934 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 14,800 Americans named Daxton 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 Daxton by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Daxton mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Daxton is “a male given name originating as a coinage.”
Modern American coinage, rhyming with Axton, Paxton, Jaxton.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Daxton?
#379 among boys’ names, 2025
Daxton rose from #381 in 2015 to #379 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.44 to 0.49 per 1,000.
1,276 babies in 2019, the peak
Daxton peaked in 2019, when 1,276 boys were given it, #279 among boys’ names. The 834 births of 2025 are 65% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 834 | #379 | 0.49 |
| 2024 | 785 | #411 | 0.46 |
| 2023 | 935 | #350 | 0.55 |
| 2022 | 1,014 | #333 | 0.58 |
| 2021 | 1,103 | #300 | 0.63 |
| 2020 | 1,173 | #288 | 0.68 |
| 2019 | 1,276 | #279 | 0.71 |
| 2018 | 1,182 | #296 | 0.65 |
| 2017 | 1,006 | #338 | 0.54 |
| 2016 | 926 | #359 | 0.49 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 850 | #381 | 0.44 |
| 2014 | 592 | #481 | 0.31 |
| 2013 | 469 | #563 | 0.25 |
| 2012 | 391 | #621 | 0.21 |
| 2011 | 358 | #656 | 0.19 |
| 2010 | 305 | #744 | 0.16 |
| 2009 | 312 | #742 | 0.16 |
| 2008 | 191 | #1,009 | 0.09 |
| 2007 | 195 | #997 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 131 | #1,277 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 159 | #1,045 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 114 | #1,303 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 86 | #1,497 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 71 | #1,659 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 69 | #1,677 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 64 | #1,741 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 42 | #2,203 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 49 | #1,962 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 39 | #2,203 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 25 | #2,938 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 35 | #2,253 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 30 | #2,514 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 15 | #4,061 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 20 | #3,242 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 8 | #6,066 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 11 | #4,738 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,594 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,200 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,260 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,199 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 8 | #4,251 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,067 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 6 | #4,937 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,276 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 9 | #3,500 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,514 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 5 | #4,864 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Daxton a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Daxton has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 47 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Daxton: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Daxton, and how old are they?
14,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 14,934 Americans ever recorded as Daxton. The median Daxton alive today is 8 years old; half are between 5 and 12.
The 2020 Census counted 8,218 people named Daxton (20 women and girls, 8,198 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,306 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 52 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 149 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,540 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 12,100 |
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 Daxton born?
The states with the most babies named Daxton are Texas, Ohio and California, with 18% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 54 | #581 | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 50 | #254 | 1.1× |
| California | 45 | #628 | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 39 | #296 | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 35 | #256 | 1.1× |
| Kentucky | 35 | #156 | 1.4× |
| Michigan | 33 | #295 | 0.9× |
| Missouri | 32 | #222 | 1.6× |
| Florida | 32 | #546 | 0.5× |
| Utah | 28 | #195 | 6.2× |
Where Daxton is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Daxton is most over-represented in Utah: since 1970 it was given 6.2 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 Daxton 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 16,430 babies since 1880, Daxton is the most given (91% of them). In 2025 it was given to 834 of their 920 babies (91%), 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 Daxton
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 Daxton and names like it
- Compare Daxton and DaxtynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sDaxton peaked in 2019.
- Utah’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Daxton since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Daxton: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Daxton.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Daxton alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with DMost given first.