Dax

What Dax means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Dax yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #692 vs #1,705 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Dax?

US: Falling: down from #551 in 2015. England & Wales: Steady: #1673 in 2015, #1705 now.

Biggest US share so far: 2019, when 749 boys got the name (#413 that year). First in the US records in 1967.

How common

• About 1 in 4,346 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 18,129 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 3,928 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NE (0.91 per 1,000 boys), NV (0.8 per 1,000 boys), ID (0.7 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Dax is #692 in the US and #1705 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Dax were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Tex33 US
• Dex20 US
• Daxx20 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Dax

Boys

• Greyson#149Variant of Grayson, meaning “steward”^*
• Grayson#51“steward”^*
• Asher#28Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #28 vs #150 in 2025
• Judah#178Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #178 vs #404 in 2025
• Lucas#10Editor’s note Up from #16 in 2015 to #10 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 170 US boys in the 2025 records
• Atticus#281“the Attic, the Athenian, a cognomen”^*

For a sister

• Kinsley#93“Royal (a man's name) + s + woodland clearing”^*
• Emery#74Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #74 vs #1,197 in 2025
• Adelaide#289“noble + nature, character”^*
• Mila#43Editor’s note Up from #53 in 2015 to #43 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 340 US girls in the 2025 records
• Harper#16From a surname for “a player of the harp”^*
• Lucille#237Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1920, with 7,989 babies; 1,314 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Dax’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.