Pax
Pax was given to 72 boys in 2025, #2,074 among boys’ names; 1,098 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,090 Americans named Pax and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 12.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Pax by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Pax mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Pax is “a female given name from Latin.” Its etymology gives the sense “Peace” (Pāx).
From Latin Pāx (“Peace”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Pax?
#2,074 among boys’ names, 2025
Pax rose from #2,160 in 2015 to #2,074 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 33.4 to 42.2 per million.
84 babies in 2016, the peak
Pax peaked in 2016, when 84 babies were given it (73 boys, #1,985 among boys’ names). The 72 births of 2025 are 86% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 72 | #2,074 | 42.2 |
| 2024 | 80 | #1,967 | 46.4 |
| 2023 | 62 | #2,286 | 36.2 |
| 2022 | 62 | #2,312 | 35.5 |
| 2021 | 72 | #2,051 | 41.2 |
| 2020 | 62 | #2,226 | 35.9 |
| 2019 | 66 | #2,165 | 36.8 |
| 2018 | 75 | #1,972 | 41.3 |
| 2017 | 63 | #2,165 | 34.0 |
| 2016 | 73 | #1,985 | 38.5 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 64 | #2,160 | 33.4 |
| 2014 | 51 | #2,481 | 26.6 |
| 2013 | 47 | #2,587 | 24.8 |
| 2012 | 47 | #2,618 | 24.8 |
| 2011 | 37 | #3,092 | 19.5 |
| 2010 | 34 | #3,288 | 17.7 |
| 2009 | 41 | #2,933 | 20.7 |
| 2008 | 15 | #5,983 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,721 | 4.3 |
| 1975 | 5 | #6,068 | 3.2 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,502 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Pax a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,098 Americans recorded as Pax, 5% are girls and 95% boys. In 2025 it went to 72 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Pax: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Pax, and how old are they?
1,090 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,098 Americans ever recorded as Pax. The median Pax alive today is 8 years old; half are between 4 and 12.
The 2020 Census counted 1,212 people named Pax (260 women and girls, 952 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 688 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Pax rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 11 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 181 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 896 |
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 Pax born?
The states with the most babies named Pax are California, Texas and Utah, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Utah is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 9 | #1,788 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 7 | #2,232 | 0.8× |
| Utah | 5 | #784 | 0.3× |
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 Pax 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 Pax
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 Pax and names like it
- Compare Pax and DashBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sPax peaked in 2016.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Pax since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Pax: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Pax.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Pax alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with PMost given first.