Axl

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Axl: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Axl: Recorded since 1996, it reached #415 in 2017, and it stood at #953 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
30times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#415highest recorded position

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2025

How to read this chart

A rank is a position in one registrar's list for one year.
Ranks from different countries are separate scales, so compare shapes, not numbers.
A rise in rank can be a small change in births, especially far down a list.

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2020
1998	#2901
2004	#2070
2005	#3208
2006	#2538
2007	#3589
2008	#3687
2009	#2544
2010	#2941
2011	#2390
2012	#1756
2013	#1404
2014	#1486
2015	#950
2016	#994
2017	#931
2018	#786
2019	#929
2020	#829
2021	#888
2022	#688
2023	#1108
2024	#898
2025	#953

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 24 of the 30 years from 1996 to 2025.

In 2024: #727 among boys in Scotland, #898 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Year-by-year storyFirst recorded, most recent, each country and each decade

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2020 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #953 among boys in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Boys

Axl appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 24 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 477 births with the name.

Axl across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Axl's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#2020 (1996)	#688 (2022)	#953 (2025)	24 of 30	477 (1996–2025)	49 (2022)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#715 (2014)	#556 (2020)	#556 (2020)	4 of 7	14 (2014–2020)	5 (2020)

Axl by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Axl in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	8	2 of 10	4
2000s	32	6 of 10	5
2010s	225	10 of 10	23
2020sbusiest	212	6 of 10	35

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 35 births a year.

See the names England and Wales has recorded the most births with →

Full data tableEvery published rank and count

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #415 in Northern Ireland in 2017.

Axl's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2025	England and Wales	male	#953	32	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#898	35	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1108	26	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#688	49	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#888	34	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#829	36	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#929	31	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#786	41	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#931	33	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#994	29	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#950	31	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1486	16	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1404	17	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1756	13	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2390	8	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2941	6	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#2544	7	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#3687	4	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#3589	4	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2538	6	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#3208	4	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#2070	7	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2901	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2020	5	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	male	#415	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#556	5	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#764	3	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#699	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	male	#715	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#727	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

Where Axl is officially recorded

4 official registrars have recorded Axl, between 1996 and 2025, in 24 of those 30 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Each mark is a year the registrar recorded the name; the diamond is that registrar's highest position. Gaps can mean a year was not published, not that the name went unused.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
England and Wales	1996–2025	24	#688 in 2022
Republic of Ireland	2014–2020	4	#556 in 2020
Northern Ireland	2017	1	#415 in 2017
Scotland	2024	1	#727 in 2024

No registrar recorded it for 5 years after 1998; it appears again in 2004.

Names measured beside itNeighbours, comparisons, related names and shared trajectories

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 24 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #415, first reached in 2017.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 49 births, registered in England and Wales in 2022.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 5 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2014, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Aws · #1879, 13y
Axel · #87, 79y
Axton · #1162, 12y
Aya · #154, 35y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Klay · #415, 20y
Moise · #414, 19y
Avie · #418, 19y
Calla · #418, 27y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Kaiser · #415, 25y
Klay · #415, 20y
Siena · #415, 30y
Sonnie · #415, 30y

Axl was ranked #415 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2017. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Ajay#415
Ali#415
Angelo#415
Augustas#415

What is known about Axl

How to read this

How often it is registered: Official record; 4 official registrars, 1996–2025.
Meaning: Not established; Not researched yet.
Origin: Not established; Not researched yet.
Pronunciation: Not established; Not recorded yet.

A claim marked not established does not mean the name lacks a meaning or is not widely used — only that Namewise has not sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #415 in Northern Ireland in 2017. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Axl

Axl at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Axl across 2 official records

Axl by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Popularity data

Where Axl is officially recorded

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Axl

What is known about Axl

Axl at a glance

Axl across 2 official records

Axl by decade in England and Wales · Boys

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Axl