girls:
166 births since 1914
#5550 (3rd percentile)
boys:
1.5k births since 1954
#3160 (31st percentile)
overall:
1.7k births since 1914
#6091 (21st percentile)
The name Saxon is the #6,091 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,658 recorded births since 1914. This represents the 21.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 21.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,160 (31.1% percentile) for all time with 1,492 births since 1954. For girls, it ranks #5,550 (2.9% percentile) for all time with 166 births since 1914.
Saxon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1914 (1914 for girls and 1954 for boys). Birth data for Saxon is available in 52 out of the 110 years between 1914 and 2023 (47 years for boys and 26 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 Saxon has been given predominantly to boys, with 90.0% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Saxon were boys. Interestingly, until around 1954, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 1914 to 1953), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (91.8% boys from 1954 to 2023).
For boys, Saxon reached its peak popularity in 1996, achieving the 5.9% percentile (ranked #732) with 25 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 28 births per million (ranked 5.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Saxon ranks #881 for boys (3.3% percentile) with 19 births per million, which is 68.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Saxon reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #982) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1914, with 9 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2018.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Saxon".
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