Axell
#2,007 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Axell has been given to 1,125 babies in the U.S. since 1995. In 2025 it ranked #2,007 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 111 recorded.
Babies named Axell, 2025
1 in 44,200
Axell over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Axell?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 44,200
- 75 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 22,800
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #2,007
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 30,640 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Axell sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 30,640 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Axell. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Axells were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Axell was born before 2020 — so the typical Axell is around 5 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 50.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 97.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,125
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 50.1% of all recorded uses (564).
Is Axell 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
- −198
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −262
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,984
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.88×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 67.6%
- Peak was 2021 (111)
- Years since peak
- 4
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 33.4% average annual change
Spellings of Axell
Axell is not the most common spelling — Maxwell is, with 35.3% against Axell's 0.37%.
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 Axell is used
Across 2016–2025, Axell was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 14,286 boys, against 1 in 37,689 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Arizona1 in 14,286
- 2California1 in 20,000
- 3Minnesota1 in 25,000
- 4Utah1 in 25,000
- 5Michigan1 in 33,333
- 6Ohio1 in 33,333
- 7Oregon1 in 33,333
- 8Pennsylvania1 in 33,333
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.
Axell around the world
Where Axell 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 & Wales2019–2023#3,113in 2023
- France1992–2019#5,111in 2019
- Canada2018–2024#2,855in 2024
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Axell by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Axell
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Axell
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.