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Axl

#1,123 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Axel

Axl has been given to 4,413 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #1,123 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 379 recorded.

Babies named Axl, 2025

1 in 17,400

Axl over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Axl: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Axel

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Axl means

Axl is a variant of Axel.

Origin, language, and formation

Axl is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Axel.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,408 boys were recorded with the name Axl between 1988 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 379 in 2019; its best national rank was #677 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #756 in 2020 to #1,123 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #761 in 2015 to #1,123 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Axl between 2020 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2020; its best national rank was #15,426 in 2020.

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 Axl?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 17,400
190 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 8,990
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,123
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
12,095 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Axl 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 12,095 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Axl. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Axls were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Axl was born before 2018 — so the typical Axl is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
51.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
94.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,408
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 51.7% of all recorded uses (2,279).

Is Axl 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
−100
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−367
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−362
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.61×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
50.1%
Peak was 2019 (379)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#677
2019

Where Axl is used

Across 2016–2025, Axl was most concentrated in West Virginia — about 1 in 2,041 boys, against 1 in 6,154 across all states with data. It was least common in Massachusetts (1 in 50,000).

249 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1West Virginia1 in 2,041
  2. 2Kentucky1 in 2,703
  3. 3Oklahoma1 in 3,030
  4. 4Arkansas1 in 3,226
  5. 5Indiana1 in 3,846
  6. 6Missouri1 in 4,167
  7. 7Colorado1 in 4,545
  8. 8Wisconsin1 in 4,545

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.

Geographically, Axl is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 43% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Axl around the world

Where Axl 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
    1996–2025
    #953
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2018–2024
    #727
    in 2024
  • Northern Ireland
    2017–2017
    #415
    in 2017
  • Ireland
    2014–2020
    #556
    in 2020
  • France
    1995–2019
    #5,249
    in 2019
  • Canada
    1993–2024
    #1,331
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1992–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, 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 Axl

People whose public names include Axl, 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.

Axl in other languages

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

Axel

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

Axl by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,123
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 367
Best rank ever
#677
2019
Peak year
2019
379 that year
First recorded
1988
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,408
Count in 2025
190

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#15,426
2020
Peak year
2020
5 that year
First recorded
2020
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Axl

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

AxleAxley

Names with a curve like Axl

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

DashHenrikFoxKaseLochlanCastielAxtonDeckerFinnleyTitanCaysonAlistair

Sibling names for Axl

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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