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Jaxon vs Jaxson

American parents have registered 114,055 Jaxons since 1880, against 68,669 Jaxsons. Jaxon is still ahead, with 3,080 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jaxon Jaxson

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 2025, when Jaxon had 3,080 and Jaxson had 2,365.

Side by side

  Jaxon Jaxson
Total US births 114,05568,669
Most in one year 8,1655,080
Babies in 2025 3,0802,365
Estimated living today 113,00068,000
Median age today 99
Peak year 20162015
Best rank 41st boys84th boys
Rank in 2025 115th156th
First recorded 19721991
Girls / boys 404 / 113,651134 / 68,535

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.

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 Jaxon Jaxson
England and Wales 13,6624,721
Scotland 1,513497
Ireland 609200
Northern Ireland 610126
France 2510

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