Excel
#12,602 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Excel has been given to 54 babies in the U.S. since 1922. In 2025 it ranked #12,602 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 8 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 54% boys, 46% girls all-time.
Babies named Excel, 2025
1 in 663,000
Excel 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Excel over time
In 2025, Excel went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Excel?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 342,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #12,602
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Excel 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Excel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Excels were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Excel was born before 2022 — so the typical Excel is around 3 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 62.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 82.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 24
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 62.1% of all recorded uses (18).
Is Excel 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
- +283
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 62.5%
- Peak was 2022 (8)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Very steady
- 0% average annual change
Spellings of Excel
Excel is not the most common spelling — Axel is, with 83.1% against Excel's 0.03%.
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.
Excel around the world
Where Excel 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 & Wales2010–2024#5,120in 2024
- France2018–2025#6,686in 2025
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Excel by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Excel
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Excel
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.