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Daxton vs Daxtyn

American parents have registered 14,934 Daxtons since 1880, against 759 Daxtyns. Daxton is still ahead, with 834 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Daxton against Daxtyn, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Daxton Daxtyn

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

Daxton has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1970 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2021, when Daxton had 1,103 and Daxtyn had 80.

Side by side

  Daxton Daxtyn
Total US births 14,934759
Most in one year 1,27680
Babies in 2025 83456
Estimated living today 15,000750
Median age today 75
Peak year 20192021
Best rank 279th boys1,903rd boys
Rank in 2025 379th2,421st
First recorded 19702008
Girls / boys 0 / 14,9340 / 759

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 Daxtons alive today are over 7; half the Daxtyns are over 5. 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: Daxton and Daxtyn.