Dax

maleStatistical record

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

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

Dax: Recorded since 1997, its highest recorded position is #535, reached in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
28times a registrar ranked it
28years from first to last
#535highest recorded position
6groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1997–2024

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#2337
1998	#2074
1999	#2943
2001	#1467
2004	#2578
2006	#2282
2007	#2435
2008	#1828
2009	#2126
2010	#2941
2011	#2039
2012	#2270
2013	#2403
2014	#1819
2015	#1673
2016	#1234
2017	#2324
2018	#1683
2019	#1655
2020	#1150
2021	#907
2022	#949
2023	#1108
2024	#1517

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 28 years from 1997 to 2024.

In 2024: #535 among boys in Scotland, #785 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #1517 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1997–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1997
First recorded at #2337 among boys in England and Wales in 1997 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1517 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Dax 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 1997, and has registered 309 births with the name.

Dax 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.

Dax'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	#2337 (1997)	#907 (2021)	#1517 (2024)	24 of 28	309 (1997–2024)	33 (2021)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#699 (2015)	#699 (2015)	#785 (2024)	3 of 10	9 (2015–2024)	3 (2015)

Dax 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 Dax in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	12	3 of 10	4
2000s	48	6 of 10	8
2010s	118	10 of 10	12
2020sbusiest	131	5 of 10	26

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 26 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Dax appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1997 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #535 in Scotland in 2024.

Dax'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
2024	England and Wales	male	#1517	17	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1108	26	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#949	32	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#907	33	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1150	23	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1655	14	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1683	14	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2324	9	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1234	22	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1673	14	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1819	12	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2403	8	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#2270	9	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2039	10	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2941	6	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#2126	9	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1828	11	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#2435	7	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2282	7	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#2578	5	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1467	9	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2943	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2074	5	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2337	4	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#785	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#741	3	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#699	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#535	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
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.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1997 and 2024, ranked in 24 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #535, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 33 births, registered in England and Wales in 2021.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2015, and 27 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.

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Daya · #918, 27y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 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.

Benji · #535, 25y
Franco · #535, 28y
Rafi · #535, 29y
Sanad · #535, 21y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Benji · #535, 25y
Ford · #535, 24y
Forest · #535, 17y
Franco · #535, 28y

Dax was ranked #535 in Scotland · Boys in 2024. 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.

Dax and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Dax without appearing here.

Dax moved ahead of

Garry Compare
In 2013 they stood at #2403 and #2216 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #1819 and #4632.
Kim Compare
In 2007 they stood at #2435 and #2435 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #1828 and #3687.
Shannon Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2578 and #2304 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #2282 and #4052.
Anders Compare
In 2015 they stood at #1673 and #1673 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2016 that had become #1234 and #2556.

Moved ahead of Dax

Mathias Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1467 and #3134 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #2578 and #1160.
Aksel Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1108 and #1461 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1517 and #1132.

Moved the opposite way to Dax

Garry Compare
Between 1997 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Dax went from #2337 to #1108 while Garry went from #914 to #4991.
Graeme Compare
Between 1997 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Dax went from #2337 to #1108 while Graeme went from #874 to #4107.
Kelly Compare
Between 1997 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Dax went from #2337 to #1108 while Kelly went from #1454 to #3523.
Brent Compare
Between 1997 and 2022 in England and Wales · Boys, Dax went from #2337 to #949 while Brent went from #725 to #3449.

Moved the same way as Dax

Arlo Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Dax went from #2943 to #1517 and Arlo from #2943 to #15.
Harper Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Dax went from #2943 to #1517 and Harper from #2425 to #1402.
Kasper Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Dax went from #2943 to #1517 and Kasper from #2425 to #529.
Leif Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Dax went from #2943 to #1517 and Leif from #2943 to #814.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't 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 3 regions, from 1997 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #535 in Scotland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Dax

Dax at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Dax across 2 official records

Dax by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Dax appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Dax at a glance

Dax across 2 official records

Dax by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Dax appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Dax

Dax and the names beside it

Dax moved ahead of

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