# Daxton (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/daxton/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 14,934 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 14,934 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 129, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Modern American coinage, rhyming with Axton, Paxton, Jaxton.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 358 | 656 |
| 2012 | 391 | 621 |
| 2013 | 469 | 563 |
| 2014 | 592 | 481 |
| 2015 | 850 | 381 |
| 2016 | 926 | 359 |
| 2017 | 1,006 | 338 |
| 2018 | 1,182 | 296 |
| 2019 | 1,276 | 279 |
| 2020 | 1,173 | 288 |
| 2021 | 1,103 | 300 |
| 2022 | 1,014 | 333 |
| 2023 | 935 | 350 |
| 2024 | 785 | 411 |
| 2025 | 834 | 379 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 3 | 4,527 |
| 2014 | 3 | 4,632 |
| 2015 | 5 | 3,373 |
| 2016 | 9 | 2,335 |
| 2017 | 8 | 2,512 |
| 2018 | 15 | 1,610 |
| 2019 | 9 | 2,266 |
| 2020 | 7 | 2,682 |
| 2021 | 18 | 1,391 |
| 2022 | 15 | 1,609 |
| 2023 | 12 | 1,906 |
| 2024 | 16 | 1,595 |
| 2025 | 9 | 2,440 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.