girls:
391 births since 1997
#5325 (7th percentile)
boys:
106.8k births since 1972
#291 (94th percentile)
overall:
107.2k births since 1972
#643 (92nd percentile)
The name Jaxon is the #643 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 107,227 recorded births since 1972. This represents the 91.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 91.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #291 (93.7% percentile) for all time with 106,836 births since 1972. For girls, it ranks #5,325 (6.8% percentile) for all time with 391 births since 1997.
Jaxon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1972 (1972 for boys and 1997 for girls). Birth data for Jaxon is available in 50 out of the 52 years between 1972 and 2023 (50 years for boys and 25 years for girls). 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.
The name Jaxon has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Jaxon reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 95.9% percentile (ranked #38) with 3,994 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 4,019 births per million (ranked 95.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Jaxon ranks #84 for boys (90.9% percentile) with 2,140 births per million, which is 53.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Jaxon reached its peak popularity in 2013, achieving the 2.9% percentile (ranked #904) with 17 births per million. The name was most common in 2013, with 17 births per million (ranked 2.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2016, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Jaxon ranks #938 for girls (1.0% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 48.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jaxon".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Jaxon is pronounced as JAK-suhn, which has 2 syllables.
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