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Jaxson vs Jaxx

American parents have registered 68,669 Jaxsons since 1880, against 3,317 Jaxxes. Jaxson is still ahead, with 2,365 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jaxson against Jaxx, 1880 to 2025 0 1.5k 3k 4.5k 6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jaxson 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

Jaxson has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1991 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2024, when Jaxson had 2,170 and Jaxx had 223.

Side by side

  Jaxson Jaxx
Total US births 68,6693,317
Most in one year 5,080304
Babies in 2025 2,365195
Estimated living today 68,0003,300
Median age today 96
Peak year 20152019
Best rank 84th boys782nd boys
Rank in 2025 156th1,097th
First recorded 19911997
Girls / boys 134 / 68,53532 / 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 Jaxsons alive today are over 9; half the Jaxxes are over 6. That is 3 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 Jaxson Jaxx
England and Wales 4,721816
Scotland 497133
Ireland 2004
Northern Ireland 12641

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.

Compare something else

Related comparisons

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