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Jaxen vs Jaxon

American parents have registered 114,055 Jaxons since 1880, against 5,691 Jaxens. Jaxon is still ahead, with 3,080 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jaxen against Jaxon, 1880 to 2025 0 2.5k 5k 7.5k 10k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jaxen Jaxon

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Jaxon has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1972 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2011, when Jaxen had 430 and Jaxon had 4,758.

Side by side

  Jaxen Jaxon
Total US births 5,691114,055
Most in one year 5638,165
Babies in 2025 1223,080
Estimated living today 5,600113,000
Median age today 119
Peak year 20132016
Best rank 493rd boys41st boys
Rank in 2025 1,459th115th
First recorded 19981972
Girls / boys 44 / 5,647404 / 113,651

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Jaxens alive today are over 11; half the Jaxons are over 9. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Jaxen Jaxon
England and Wales 17813,662
Scotland 191,513
Ireland 4609
Northern Ireland 3610

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Related comparisons

Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jaxen and Jaxon.