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Jaxon vs Jaxston

American parents have registered 114,055 Jaxons since 1880, against 937 Jaxstons. Jaxon is still ahead, with 3,080 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jaxon Jaxston

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 2023, when Jaxon had 3,959 and Jaxston had 54.

Side by side

  Jaxon Jaxston
Total US births 114,055937
Most in one year 8,16594
Babies in 2025 3,08032
Estimated living today 113,000930
Median age today 97
Peak year 20162019
Best rank 41st boys1,691st boys
Rank in 2025 115th3,513th
First recorded 19722003
Girls / boys 404 / 113,6510 / 937

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 Jaxons alive today are over 9; half the Jaxstons are over 7. 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.

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