Axel
Recorded for both sexesGen Alpha2025 rank
#79
down −1 places
2025 births
4,140
down −115 births
All-time births
72,459
6% of them in 2025
More common than
99%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 2020
- 4,667 births
- Best rank
- #71
- in 2023
- First recorded
- 1880
- #442 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 2014
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 142 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 20204,667#72Peak
- 20214,540#76
- 20234,523#71
- 20194,505#84
- 20224,350#76
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #71 in 2023 · peak births 4,667 in 2020
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 100% boys■ 0% girls
72,459 boys · 209 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Axel has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.