Pax — #1974 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Pax

The Social Security Administration has registered 971 babies named Pax between 1974 and 2024, spanning 51 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Pax currently holds the #1974 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 79 babies received it in a single year. Pax is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 54 additional births since 2014.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Pax performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 557 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Pax shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 119 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Pax in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Pax in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 971 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.