girls:
204 births since 2009
#5512 (4th percentile)
boys:
23k births since 1995
#756 (84th percentile)
overall:
23.2k births since 1995
#1664 (79th percentile)
The name Jax is the #1,664 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 23,211 recorded births since 1995. This represents the 78.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 78.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #756 (83.5% percentile) for all time with 23,007 births since 1995. For girls, it ranks #5,512 (3.5% percentile) for all time with 204 births since 2009.
Jax first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1995 (1995 for boys and 2009 for girls).
The name Jax has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.1% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Jax reached its peak popularity in 2014, achieving the 77.5% percentile (ranked #204) with 905 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 912 births per million (ranked 76.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Jax ranks #276 for boys (69.8% percentile) with 631 births per million, which is 69.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Jax reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 3.4% percentile (ranked #927) with 19 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 19 births per million (ranked 3.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Jax ranks #938 for girls (1.0% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 41.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jax".
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