Saxon
Saxon was given to 39 boys in 2025, #3,118 among boys’ names; 1,737 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,670 Americans named Saxon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 10 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Saxon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Saxon mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Saxon is “a male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage or directly from the noun Saxon.” Its etymology gives the senses “Saxon” (Saxon) and “a Saxon” (Saxō) and “rock, knife” (*sahsą).
Partially from Middle English Saxe, Sax; from Old English *Seaxa (attested in plural Seaxan), and Saxoun, from Old French *Saxoun, Saxon (“Saxon”), from Late Latin Saxōnem, accusative of Saxō (“a Saxon”), both from Proto-West Germanic *sahs, from Proto-Germanic *sahsą (“rock, knife”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”). Doublet of Sais. Cognates Cognate with Middle Low German sasse (“someone speaking Saxon, i.e. (Middle) Low German”), Old English Seaxa (“a Saxon”), Old High German Sahso (“a Saxon”), Icelandic Saxi (“a Saxon”), Estonian saks (“lord; German”), Finnish Saksa (“Germany”). Also cognate to Old English seax (“a knife, hip-knife, an instrument for cutting, a short sword, dirk, dagger”); more at sax.
/ˈsæksən/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Saxon?
#3,118 among boys’ names, 2025
Saxon fell from #2,851 in 2015 to #3,118 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 21.9 to 22.8 per million.
55 babies in 2018, the peak
Saxon peaked in 2018, when 55 babies were given it (47 boys, #2,663 among boys’ names). The 39 births of 2025 are 71% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39 | #3,118 | 22.8 |
| 2024 | 40 | #3,091 | 23.2 |
| 2023 | 35 | #3,402 | 20.5 |
| 2022 | 51 | #2,640 | 29.2 |
| 2021 | 52 | #2,549 | 29.7 |
| 2020 | 43 | #2,832 | 24.9 |
| 2019 | 50 | #2,616 | 27.9 |
| 2018 | 47 | #2,663 | 25.9 |
| 2017 | 47 | #2,664 | 25.4 |
| 2016 | 48 | #2,615 | 25.3 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 42 | #2,851 | 21.9 |
| 2014 | 44 | #2,740 | 22.9 |
| 2013 | 43 | #2,754 | 22.7 |
| 2012 | 32 | #3,434 | 16.9 |
| 2011 | 34 | #3,291 | 17.9 |
| 2010 | 44 | #2,779 | 22.9 |
| 2009 | 49 | #2,580 | 24.7 |
| 2008 | 42 | #2,871 | 20.6 |
| 2007 | 43 | #2,799 | 20.7 |
| 2006 | 45 | #2,649 | 21.9 |
| 2005 | 28 | #3,509 | 14.0 |
| 2004 | 27 | #3,519 | 13.6 |
| 2003 | 27 | #3,424 | 13.7 |
| 2002 | 31 | #3,002 | 16.0 |
| 2001 | 41 | #2,417 | 21.1 |
| 2000 | 44 | #2,243 | 22.4 |
| 1999 | 34 | #2,595 | 17.7 |
| 1998 | 25 | #3,167 | 13.1 |
| 1997 | 32 | #2,535 | 17.0 |
| 1996 | 51 | #1,808 | 26.9 |
| 1995 | 30 | #2,541 | 15.8 |
| 1994 | 48 | #1,812 | 24.8 |
| 1993 | 41 | #1,991 | 20.9 |
| 1992 | 43 | #1,904 | 21.5 |
| 1991 | 40 | #1,940 | 19.8 |
| 1990 | 18 | #3,430 | 8.8 |
| 1989 | 24 | #2,670 | 12.0 |
| 1988 | 23 | #2,579 | 12.0 |
| 1987 | 17 | #3,049 | 9.1 |
| 1986 | 19 | #2,765 | 10.3 |
| 1985 | 11 | #3,999 | 6.0 |
| 1984 | 6 | #6,187 | 3.3 |
| 1983 | 7 | #5,379 | 3.9 |
| 1981 | 5 | #7,093 | 2.8 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,643 | 3.7 |
| 1972 | 8 | #3,907 | 4.9 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,917 | 2.8 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,532 | 2.4 |
| 1954 | 5 | #4,287 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Saxon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,737 Americans recorded as Saxon, 10% are girls and 90% boys. In 2025 it went to 39 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 Saxon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Saxon, and how old are they?
1,670 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,737 Americans ever recorded as Saxon. The median Saxon alive today is 19 years old; half are between 10 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 1,428 people named Saxon (197 women and girls, 1,231 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,431 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 7 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 17 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 399 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 638 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 608 |
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 Saxon born?
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 Saxon 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 Saxon
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 Saxon and names like it
- Compare Saxon and SaadBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sSaxon peaked in 2018.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Saxon since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Saxon: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Saxon.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Saxon alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.