girls:
5 births since 2020
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
4k births since 1988
#1944 (58th percentile)
overall:
4k births since 1988
#4344 (44th percentile)
The name Axl is the #4,344 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,998 recorded births since 1988. This represents the 43.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 43.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,944 (57.6% percentile) for all time with 3,993 births since 1988. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2020.
Axl first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1988 (1988 for boys and 2020 for girls).
The name Axl has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Axl reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 37.0% percentile (ranked #578) with 196 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 196 births per million (ranked 37.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Axl ranks #662 for boys (27.4% percentile) with 140 births per million, which is 71.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Axl reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #940) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Axl".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Axl", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 19 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Axel" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Axel..
Our model found one way to pronounce the name Axl. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Axl is pronounced as AK-suhl, which has 2 syllables.
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