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Dax

#692 in 2025Boys' name

English surname transferred into given-name use

Dax has been given to 11,934 babies in the U.S. since 1967. In 2025 it ranked #692 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 749 recorded.

Babies named Dax, 2025

1 in 8,440

Dax over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dax: meaning, origin, and history

English surname transferred into given-name use

English surname transfer

What Dax means

Dax is a given name.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Dax is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈdæks/ for Dax.

The naming story behind Dax

Dax is a given name adopted from English surname. This establishes the immediate naming route. A surname transfer is different from a direct translation of the modern given-name spelling; the family name may have its own earlier derivation.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11,918 boys were recorded with the name Dax between 1967 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 749 in 2019; its best national rank was #413 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #469 in 2020 to #692 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #551 in 2015 to #692 in 2025.

In the United States, 16 girls were recorded with the name Dax between 2015 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2015; its best national rank was #14,956 in 2015.

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.

How common is Dax?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 8,440
393 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 4,350
0.02% of boys
Rank, 2025
#692
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
5,848 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dax 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 1001%
School of 5006%

Put another way: gather 5,848 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dax. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Daxs were born

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

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
41.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
82.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
11,918
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 41.9% of all recorded uses (4,996).

Is Dax 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
−51
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−223
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−141
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.76×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
52.5%
Peak was 2019 (749)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#413
2019

Where Dax is used

Across 2016–2025, Dax was most concentrated in North Dakota — about 1 in 518 boys, against 1 in 2,645 across all states with data. It was least common in New Mexico (1 in 10,000).

10193 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Dakota1 in 518
  2. 2Utah1 in 781
  3. 3Nebraska1 in 800
  4. 4Idaho1 in 893
  5. 5Iowa1 in 1,031
  6. 6Wyoming1 in 1,087
  7. 7Kansas1 in 1,205
  8. 8Oklahoma1 in 1,266

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

Dax around the world

Where Dax 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
    1997–2025
    #1,705
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2006–2025
    #560
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2015–2024
    #785
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #720
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1971–2013
    #499
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Dax

People whose public names include Dax, 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.

Dax by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#692
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 223
Best rank ever
#413
2019
Peak year
2019
749 that year
First recorded
1967
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
11,918
Count in 2025
393

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#14,956
2015
Peak year
2015
6 that year
First recorded
2015
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
16
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dax

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

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Names with a curve like Dax

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

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Sibling names for Dax

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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