Saxon — #3052 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Saxon

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,532 babies named Saxon between 1954 and 2024, spanning 71 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Saxon currently holds the #3052 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 52 babies received it in a single year. Saxon is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 166 additional births since 1914.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Saxon performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 431 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Saxon shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 173 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Saxon in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Saxon 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 1,532 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.