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Jaxen vs Jaxx

American parents have registered 5,691 Jaxens since 1880, against 3,317 Jaxxes. But in 2025 it was Jaxx that was commoner, 195 babies to 122.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jaxen against Jaxx, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jaxen Jaxx

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

Of the 29 years in which either name was published, Jaxen for 21 years and Jaxx for 8 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Jaxen Jaxx
Total US births 5,6913,317
Most in one year 563304
Babies in 2025 122195
Estimated living today 5,6003,300
Median age today 116
Peak year 20132019
Best rank 493rd boys782nd boys
Rank in 2025 1,459th1,097th
First recorded 19981997
Girls / boys 44 / 5,64732 / 3,285

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 Jaxxes are over 6. That is 5 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 Jaxx
England and Wales 178816
Scotland 19133
Northern Ireland 341
Ireland 44

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 Jaxx.