boys:
2.3k births since 1989
#2645 (42nd percentile)
overall:
2.3k births since 1989
#5527 (29th percentile)
The name Aksel is the #5,527 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,275 recorded births since 1989. This represents the 28.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 28.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,645 (42.3% percentile) for all time with 2,275 births since 1989.
Aksel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1989 (first recorded for boys in 1989). Birth data for Aksel is available in 30 out of the 35 years between 1989 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Aksel reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 21.2% percentile (ranked #720) with 102 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 102 births per million (ranked 21.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Aksel ranks #769 for boys (15.6% percentile) with 80 births per million, which is 78.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Aksel".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Aksel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 36.8% confident that Aksel is pronounced as AK-suhl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AHK-suhl, at 26.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like AE1 K S AH0 L) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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