girls:
16 births since 2015
#5700 (0th percentile)
boys:
11.1k births since 1967
#1099 (76th percentile)
overall:
11.1k births since 1967
#2496 (68th percentile)
The name Dax is the #2,496 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 11,092 recorded births since 1967. This represents the 67.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 67.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,099 (76.0% percentile) for all time with 11,076 births since 1967. For girls, it ranks #5,700 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 16 births since 2015.
Dax first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1967 (1967 for boys and 2015 for girls).
The name Dax has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Dax reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 57.6% percentile (ranked #389) with 390 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 390 births per million (ranked 57.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1993, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Dax ranks #486 for boys (46.7% percentile) with 283 births per million, which is 72.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Dax reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #959) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% 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 "Dax".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Dax is pronounced as daks, which has 1 syllables.
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