How Many People Are Named Jaxson?

68,111

people named Jaxson are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 5,018 people in the US has this name

Based on 68,669 babies named Jaxson in Social Security records from 1991 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#735

💎 Rare

Rank Among Boy Names

#324

See the top 100

Peak Year

2015

5,080 births

Trend

↓

Declining (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English (Modern)
Pronunciation: JAK-sən
Gender: Primarily Male

Meaning:

Variant of JACKSON.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Jaxson in English. Counting Jaxson and these spellings together, about 467,642 people alive in the US have the name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
0.2%
Male
99.8%

Almost all of the babies given the name Jaxson (99.8%) were boys.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Jaxson alive today is about 9 years old, and 100% are under 30. Half of them were between 5 and 12 in 2025.

Under 30 68,052
99.9%
30 to 59 59
0.1%
60 and over 0
0%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Jaxson first appears in the records in 1991 and was given most often in 2015, to 5,080 babies. In 2025, 2,365 babies got the name. Over the last ten years, the number each year has been falling.

Babies given the name each year, 1991 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Jaxson never made the top 10 boys' names. Its best rank was #76, in 2018, and it was in the top 100 for 8 years, 2013 to 2020. In 2025 it ranked #156.

Boys
Rank in 2025#156
Best rank#76 (2018)
Years in the top 1008 (2013 to 2020)
Rank in its biggest decade#93 in the 2010s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Jaxson alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Jaxson were born in Texas than in any other state: about 5,410 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Jaxson was given 2.2 times as often in West Virginia, 2 times in New Hampshire and 1.9 times in Nebraska.

Texas 5,410
California 5,283
Florida 4,041
Ohio 3,609
New York 2,727
Pennsylvania 2,647
Michigan 2,421
Illinois 2,394
Indiana 2,208
North Carolina 2,114
Tennessee 2,009
Georgia 1,993
Missouri 1,713
Kentucky 1,536
Virginia 1,513
Washington 1,490
Arizona 1,456
Wisconsin 1,384
New Jersey 1,292
Minnesota 1,236
Colorado 1,157
Iowa 1,118
Massachusetts 1,113
Alabama 1,089
South Carolina 1,074
Louisiana 1,066
Utah 1,062
Oklahoma 1,034
Maryland 965
Kansas 906
Arkansas 873
Oregon 808
Nebraska 767
West Virginia 691
Nevada 604
Connecticut 597
Mississippi 593
Idaho 467
New Hampshire 381
Maine 334
New Mexico 293
Montana 279
North Dakota 276
South Dakota 272
Rhode Island 271
Delaware 219
Alaska 190
Hawaii 128
Vermont 126
Wyoming 101
District of Columbia 29

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