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Axton

#906 in 2025Boys' name

Acca's stone

Axton has been given to 5,677 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #906 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 464 recorded.

Babies named Axton, 2025

1 in 12,700

Axton over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Axton: meaning, origin, and history

Acca's stone

surname transfer

What Axton means

Axton means “Acca's stone”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Axton, Kent, Old English Acca (a personal name) + Old English stan (“stone”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Axton (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Axton is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Axton comes through Old English Acca and Old English stan.

Axton is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,672 boys were recorded with the name Axton between 1988 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 464 in 2021; its best national rank was #594 in 2018.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #606 in 2020 to #906 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #701 in 2015 to #906 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Axton between 2019 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2019; its best national rank was #15,867 in 2019.

How common is Axton?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 12,700
262 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 6,520
0.02% of boys
Rank, 2025
#906
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
8,772 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Axton 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 5004%

Put another way: gather 8,772 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Axton. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Axtons were born

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

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
53.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
99.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,672
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 53.4% of all recorded uses (3,030).

Is Axton 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
−72
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−300
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−205
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.73×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
56.5%
Peak was 2021 (464)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#594
2018

Spellings of Axton

Axton is not the most common spelling — Aaron is, with 41.4% against Axton's 0.38%.

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 Axton is used

Across 2016–2025, Axton was most concentrated in West Virginia — about 1 in 893 boys, against 1 in 4,176 across all states with data. It was least common in Massachusetts (1 in 50,000).

2112 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1West Virginia1 in 893
  2. 2Idaho1 in 1,351
  3. 3Kentucky1 in 1,639
  4. 4Oklahoma1 in 1,667
  5. 5Kansas1 in 1,724
  6. 6Arkansas1 in 1,786
  7. 7Nebraska1 in 2,000
  8. 8Mississippi1 in 2,041

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, Axton is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 76% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Axton around the world

Where Axton 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
    #1,613
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2004–2024
    #1,459
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1992–2013
    #499
    in 2013

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.

Axton by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#906
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 300
Best rank ever
#594
2018
Peak year
2021
464 that year
First recorded
1988
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,672
Count in 2025
262

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#15,867
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 Axton

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

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Names with a curve like Axton

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

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Sibling names for Axton

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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