# Saxon (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/saxon/  
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 | “saxon”, “a saxon”, “rock”, “knife”, “to cut”, “someone speaking saxon”, “i.e. (middle) low german”, “lord” |
| Pronunciation | /ˈsæksən/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 1,737 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,571 / 166 (10% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 617, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Partially from Middle English Saxe, Sax; from Old English *Seaxa (attested in plural Seaxan), from Proto-West Germanic *Sahsan, plural of Proto-West Germanic *Sahsō. Also from Saxoun, through Old French *Saxoun, Saxon (“Saxon”), from Late Latin Saxōnem, accusative of Saxō (“a Saxon”). All from Proto-West Germanic *sahs, from Proto-Germanic *sahsą (“rock, knife”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”). Doublet of Sais. Cognates Cognate with Middle Low German sasse (“someone speaking Saxon, i.e. (Middle) Low German”), Old English Seaxa (“a Saxon”), Old High German Sahso (“a Saxon”), Icelandic Saxi (“a Saxon”), Estonian saks (“lord; German”), Finnish Saksa (“Germany”). Also cognate to Old English seax (“a knife, hip-knife, an instrument for cutting, a short sword, dirk, dagger”); more at sax.

## What it means

Saxon is grouped under god and mountain.

## 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, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 5 | 17,113 |
| 2002 | 6 | 15,061 |
| 2003 | 8 | 12,203 |
| 2004 | 6 | 15,733 |
| 2005 | 5 | 18,668 |
| 2006 | 7 | 14,867 |
| 2007 | 10 | 11,488 |
| 2008 | 6 | 17,129 |
| 2009 | 5 | 19,701 |
| 2011 | 6 | 16,441 |
| 2014 | 5 | 18,776 |
| 2015 | 5 | 18,675 |
| 2016 | 6 | 15,923 |
| 2017 | 7 | 13,875 |
| 2018 | 8 | 12,311 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 34 | 3,292 |
| 2012 | 32 | 3,437 |
| 2013 | 43 | 2,756 |
| 2014 | 44 | 2,742 |
| 2015 | 42 | 2,852 |
| 2016 | 48 | 2,616 |
| 2017 | 47 | 2,665 |
| 2018 | 47 | 2,664 |
| 2019 | 50 | 2,617 |
| 2020 | 43 | 2,833 |
| 2021 | 52 | 2,550 |
| 2022 | 51 | 2,641 |
| 2023 | 35 | 3,404 |
| 2024 | 40 | 3,092 |
| 2025 | 39 | 3,119 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 6 | 2,350 |
| 1997 | 7 | 2,152 |
| 1998 | 7 | 2,165 |
| 1999 | 8 | 1,970 |
| 2000 | 6 | 2,416 |
| 2001 | 3 | 3,998 |
| 2004 | 4 | 3,725 |
| 2022 | 3 | 5,669 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 16 | 1,447 |
| 2012 | 20 | 1,270 |
| 2013 | 21 | 1,183 |
| 2014 | 16 | 1,486 |
| 2015 | 32 | 927 |
| 2016 | 38 | 833 |
| 2017 | 21 | 1,247 |
| 2018 | 31 | 932 |
| 2019 | 35 | 856 |
| 2020 | 41 | 766 |
| 2021 | 23 | 1,184 |
| 2022 | 43 | 758 |
| 2023 | 34 | 910 |
| 2024 | 20 | 1,322 |
| 2025 | 26 | 1,124 |

## People named Saxon

- Saxon Sharbino, American actress

## 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.