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Aksel

#1,267 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Axel

Aksel has been given to 2,561 babies in the U.S. since 1989. In 2025 it ranked #1,267 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 198 recorded.

Babies named Aksel, 2025

1 in 21,400

Aksel over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aksel: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Axel

Danish

What Aksel means

Aksel is a variant of Axel.

Origin, language, and formation

Aksel is used in Danish, Estonian, Faroese and Norwegian. Its origins include Danish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Axel and Absalom.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,561 boys were recorded with the name Aksel between 1989 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 198 in 2018; its best national rank was #1,029 in 2018.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,177 in 2020 to #1,267 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,359 in 2015 to #1,267 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Aksel?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 21,400
155 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 11,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,267
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
14,826 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aksel sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5002%

Put another way: gather 14,826 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aksel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aksels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aksel was born before 2017 — so the typical Aksel is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
50.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,561
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 50.1% of all recorded uses (1,284).

Is Aksel rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+159
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−90
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+92
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.21×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
78.3%
Peak was 2018 (198)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,029
2018

Spellings of Aksel

Aksel is not the most common spelling — Angel is, with 54.0% against Aksel's 0.52%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Aksel is used

Across 2016–2025, Aksel was most concentrated in Colorado — about 1 in 2,857 boys, against 1 in 13,730 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 50,000).

235 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Colorado1 in 2,857
  2. 2Minnesota1 in 3,333
  3. 3Washington1 in 4,545
  4. 4Wisconsin1 in 6,250
  5. 5Montana1 in 7,143
  6. 6Oregon1 in 7,692
  7. 7California1 in 11,111
  8. 8Illinois1 in 12,500

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Aksel around the world

Where Aksel ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2006–2025
    #1,798
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2018–2018
    #704
    in 2018
  • Ireland
    2022–2022
    #657
    in 2022
  • France
    1985–2025
    #362
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #25
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2003–2024
    #857
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2004–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Aksel

People whose public names include Aksel, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Aksel in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Aksel. Linked forms have their own page here.

AxelAbsalomAbsalonAvshalomAkseliAbsalónAssalonneAvessalom

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Aksel by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,267
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 90
Best rank ever
#1,029
2018
Peak year
2018
198 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,561
Count in 2025
155

Names similar to Aksel

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

AkshayEdselAnselAksharAkshajDieselHanselAkshatBaselAksilAkshRusselBasselMarselErselHasselManselAkshathHerselJoselAxselEarselDenselAkshiv

Names with a curve like Aksel

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Aksel, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

CaysenBenaiahJensonAayanJessiahLokiRugerZeusKruzEasonLinkinZakariya

Sibling names for Aksel

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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