How rare is the name Daxton?

8,218 people in the United States have the first name Daxton, about 1 in 36,752. It ranks #2,814 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 2 others.

first name

DAXTON

#2,814

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
8,218
About
1 in 36,752
This common or more
80.9%
Who bears it

Of the 8,218 people named Daxton, 80.2% reported their origin as White, 7.1% as Hispanic or Latino and 6.7% as two or more races. Virtually all are male (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Daxton peaked in 2019, when 1,276 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19702025
Peak year
2019
Births that year
1,276
In 2025*
834 ▼35%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 14,934 babies have been given the name since 1970. 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.

Daxton by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2020s, when it ranked #676. The largest share of babies named Daxton, 81.3%, were born in 2013 or later.

1970s#11,17258
1980s#24,67011
1990s#6,422274
2000s#2,6371,392
2010s#8377,355
2020s#6765,844
Generation X 1965–800.4%
Millennials 1981–961%
Generation Z 1997–1217.2%
2013 and later81.3%

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 Daxton is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Daxton has been most common in Utah (12×), Idaho (5.5×), and Oklahoma (3.5×), and least common in New Jersey (0.18×).

13,762 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.

Exactly as common as Daxton

2 other first names also have 8,218 people.

#2,814 Nikolai · 8,218#2,814 Siena · 8,218

Either side of Daxton

#2,812 Tien · 8,223#2,813 Lucian · 8,220#2,814 Nikolai · 8,218#2,814 Siena · 8,218

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