Jaxen
Jaxen was given to 122 boys in 2025, #1,462 among boys’ names; 5,691 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,640 Americans named Jaxen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 8 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jaxen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jaxen mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jaxen is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
Rare fanciful spelling of Jackson.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jaxen?
#1,462 among boys’ names, 2025
Jaxen fell from #655 in 2015 to #1,462 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.21 to 0.07 per 1,000.
563 babies in 2013, the peak
Jaxen peaked in 2013, when 563 babies were given it (554 boys, #493 among boys’ names). The 122 births of 2025 are 22% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 122 | #1,462 | 0.07 |
| 2024 | 121 | #1,489 | 0.07 |
| 2023 | 126 | #1,443 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 173 | #1,182 | 0.10 |
| 2021 | 206 | #1,043 | 0.12 |
| 2020 | 215 | #993 | 0.12 |
| 2019 | 218 | #980 | 0.12 |
| 2018 | 294 | #783 | 0.16 |
| 2017 | 329 | #726 | 0.18 |
| 2016 | 342 | #715 | 0.18 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 395 | #655 | 0.21 |
| 2014 | 498 | #553 | 0.26 |
| 2013 | 554 | #493 | 0.29 |
| 2012 | 452 | #572 | 0.24 |
| 2011 | 419 | #595 | 0.22 |
| 2010 | 232 | #891 | 0.12 |
| 2009 | 242 | #871 | 0.12 |
| 2008 | 130 | #1,331 | 0.06 |
| 2007 | 130 | #1,319 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 103 | #1,484 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 70 | #1,843 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 74 | #1,721 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 49 | #2,215 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 49 | #2,171 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 36 | #2,648 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 31 | #2,881 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 22 | #3,516 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 15 | #4,504 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jaxen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jaxen has been given almost only to boys: 44 girls in 28 years of records.
Girls and boys named Jaxen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jaxen, and how old are they?
5,640 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,691 Americans ever recorded as Jaxen. The median Jaxen alive today is 12 years old; half are between 8 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 4,157 people named Jaxen (77 women and girls, 4,080 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,744 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 Z | 1997-2012 | 2,060 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,580 |
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 Jaxen born?
The states with the most babies named Jaxen are Texas, California and Florida, with 49% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 13 | #1,440 | 0.9× |
| California | 9 | #1,745 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,540 | 0.7× |
| New York | 7 | #1,485 | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,168 | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,041 | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,280 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,363 | 0.6× |
Where Jaxen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jaxen is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1998 it was given 1.4 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 Jaxen 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 126,777 babies since 1880, Jaxen is the second most given (4.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 122 of their 3,603 babies (3.4%), the third most given that year.
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 Jaxen
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 Jaxen and names like it
- Compare Jaxen and JaxonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJaxen peaked in 2013.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jaxen since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Jaxen: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Jaxen.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jaxen alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.