Axle
#1,709 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Axle has been given to 1,816 babies in the U.S. since 1989. In 2025 it ranked #1,709 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 150 recorded.
Babies named Axle, 2025
1 in 34,900
Axle 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Axle?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 34,900
- 95 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 18,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #1,709
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 24,190 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Axle 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 24,190 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Axle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Axles were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Axle was born before 2018 — so the typical Axle is around 7 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 53.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 98.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,816
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 53.5% of all recorded uses (971).
Is Axle 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
- +44
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −340
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −340
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.75×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 63.3%
- Peak was 2021 (150)
- Years since peak
- 4
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 30.5% average annual change
Spellings of Axle
Axle is not the most common spelling — Kyle is, with 25.5% against Axle's 0.10%.
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 Axle is used
Across 2016–2025, Axle was most concentrated in Tennessee — about 1 in 7,692 boys, against 1 in 20,532 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).
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.
Axle around the world
Where Axle 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 & Wales2021–2023#4,108in 2023
- Canada2009–2023#1,853in 2023
- South Australia2005–2012#771in 2012
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Axle by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Axle
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Axle
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.