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Axelle

#13,416 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Axel

Axelle has been given to 204 babies in the U.S. since 1999. In 2025 it ranked #13,416 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Axelle, 2025

1 in 553,000

Axelle over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Axelle: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Axel

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Axelle means

Axelle is a feminine form of Axel.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Axelle is used in French.

Another recorded pronunciation is /a.ksɛl/ for Axelle.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Axel.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Axelle is pronounced /ak.sɛl/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 199 girls were recorded with the name Axelle between 1999 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 19 in 2017; its best national rank was #6,321 in 2017.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #10,362 in 2020 to #13,416 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #10,248 in 2015 to #13,416 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Axelle between 2019 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2019; its best national rank was #12,341 in 2019.

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 Axelle?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#13,416
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Axelle sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Axelle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Axelles were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Axelle was born before 2016 — so the typical Axelle is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
52.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
199
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 52.3% of all recorded uses (104).

Is Axelle 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
−3,039
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,054
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,168
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.60×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
31.6%
Peak was 2017 (19)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
52.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,321
2017

Spellings of Axelle

Axelle is not the most common spelling — Janelle is, with 19.3% against Axelle's 0.07%.

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 Axelle is used

Across 1910–2025, Axelle was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,456,184 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Axelle has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Axelle around the world

Where Axelle 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
    1999–2023
    #5,688
    in 2023
  • France
    1935–2025
    #297
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1994–2024
    #1,286
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1992–2000
    #727
    in 2000

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

Axelle by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#13,416
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,054
Best rank ever
#6,321
2017
Peak year
2017
19 that year
First recorded
1999
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
199
Count in 2025
6

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#12,341
2019
Peak year
2019
5 that year
First recorded
2019
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Axelle

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

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Sibling names for Axelle

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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