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Zaxai vs Zaxton

American parents have registered 592 Zaxtons since 1880, against 19 Zaxais. Zaxton is still ahead, with 55 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Zaxai against Zaxton, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Zaxai Zaxton

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

Zaxton has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 2009 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2019, when Zaxai had 14 and Zaxton had 32.

Side by side

  Zaxai Zaxton
Total US births 19592
Most in one year 14132
Babies in 2025 under 555
Estimated living today 19590
Median age today 63
Peak year 20192022
Best rank 6,104th boys1,403rd boys
Rank in 2025 unranked2,451st
First recorded 20192009
Girls / boys 0 / 190 / 592

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 Zaxais alive today are over 6; half the Zaxtons are over 3. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Compare something else

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