How rare is the name Dax?

8,427 people in the United States have the first name Dax, about 1 in 35,841. It ranks #2,766 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

DAX

#2,766

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
8,427
About
1 in 35,841
This common or more
80.8%
Who bears it

Of the 8,427 people named Dax, 76.9% reported their origin as White, 10.5% as Hispanic or Latino and 6.3% as two or more races. 99.3% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Dax peaked in 2019, when 749 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19672025
Peak year
2019
Births that year
749
In 2025*
393 ▼48%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 11,934 babies have been given the name since 1967. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Dax by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2020s, when it ranked #1,080. The largest share of babies named Dax, 61.6%, were born in 2013 or later.

1960s#8,90352
1970s#1,9381,018
1980s#3,896411
1990s#4,145520
2000s#2,4001,586
2010s#1,1465,007
2020s#1,0803,340
Generation X 1965–809.5%
Millennials 1981–965.5%
Generation Z 1997–1223.4%
2013 and later61.6%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Dax is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Dax has been most common in Utah (7.8×), Idaho (4.4×), and Oklahoma (2.6×), and least common in Massachusetts (0.19×).

9,601 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Dax

#2,764 Christal · 8,431#2,765 Andria · 8,429#2,767 Janiyah · 8,426#2,768 Anabelle · 8,420

Spelled almost the same

4 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Dax, most common first.

#19,256 Daxa · 552#29,154 Dak · 305#29,280 Dac · 303#34,840 Dag · 233

Also a last name

As a last name, Dax ranks #53,424 of 156,621, with 418 people. See Dax as a last name

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