Daxton

What Daxton means

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

Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1970, with 5 babies Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Daxton?

US: Steady: #381 in 2015, #379 now. England & Wales: Rising: up from #3373 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2019, when 1,276 boys got the name (#279 that year). First in the US records in 1970.

How common

• About 1 in 2,048 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 30,215 baby boys in England and Wales 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 ND (2.09 per 1,000 boys), KY (1.7 per 1,000 boys), NH (1.55 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Daxton is #379 in the US and #2440 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 Daxton were boys.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Daxtyn56 US
• Dexton30 US
• Daxten19 US
• Daxtin11 US
• Dextyn7 US
• Dexten7 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 Daxton

Boys

• Grayson#51“steward”^*
• Karter#270Variant of Carter, meaning “son of Arthur”^*
• Atticus#281“the Attic, the Athenian, a cognomen”^*
• Greyson#149Variant of Grayson, meaning “steward”^*
• Judah#178Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #178 vs #404 in 2025
• Asher#28Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #28 vs #150 in 2025

For a sister

• Kinsley#93“Royal (a man's name) + s + woodland clearing”^*
• Luna#27“the moon”^*
• Emery#74Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #74 vs #1,197 in 2025
• Adeline#59Form of Adela, meaning “noble”^*
• Evelyn#8Same root as Eileen, possibly meaning “radiance, beauty”^*
• Penelope#22possibly “duck”^*

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 Daxton’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.