Fun Facts About the Name Daxton
- More than 14 thousand babies named Daxton: U.S. records list 14,924 babies given the name Daxton from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Daxton Mean?
Daxton has no securely established meaning. Its ending, -ton, comes from Old English tūn, "enclosure" or "settlement," the same element found in English place names and in surnames such as Paxton and Braxton. The first element, Dax, is a separate name of uncertain origin; a common suggestion links it to the town of Dax in southwestern France, whose own name goes back to Latin aquae, "waters," after its Roman-era baths. Since the first element cannot be reliably traced, a reading like "Dax's settlement" is a possibility rather than an established etymology.
Daxton Name History & Origins
Daxton belongs to a group of American names formed with the ending -ton, among them Braxton, Paxton, Maxton, and Jaxton. That ending is the common English place-name element used for centuries to build village names and, from them, surnames. Names of this shape later moved into given-name use in the United States, and Daxton follows that pattern rather than descending from an older English surname or village.
The shorter name Dax has its own separate background. It is a surname, and it is also the name of a town in the Landes region of southwestern France, on the Adour River; the town's name derives from Latin aquae ("waters"), referring to its Roman-period thermal springs. Whether the personal name Dax comes from the town, from the surname, or from some other source is not settled. Dax also appears as a character surname in the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, which began in 1993.
Daxton itself came into use in the United States in the late twentieth century, when surnames and place-style names with -ton endings were already well established, and it has remained in use in the twenty-first century.
How Popular is the Name Daxton?
Daxton recorded its highest annual U.S. birth count in 2019. Its best rank was #279 in 2019.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #379 | 834 | 0.0488% |
| 2024 | #411 | 784 | 0.0457% |
| 2023 | #352 | 931 | 0.0545% |
| 2022 | #333 | 1,014 | 0.0581% |
| 2021 | #301 | 1,100 | 0.0629% |
| 2020 | #288 | 1,173 | 0.0680% |
| 2019 | #279 | 1,276 | 0.0712% |
| 2018 | #296 | 1,181 | 0.0651% |
| 2017 | #338 | 1,006 | 0.0544% |
| 2016 | #360 | 925 | 0.0488% |
| 2015 | #381 | 850 | 0.0444% |
| 2014 | #481 | 592 | 0.0308% |
| 2013 | #563 | 469 | 0.0248% |
| 2012 | #620 | 391 | 0.0206% |
| 2011 | #656 | 358 | 0.0189% |
| 2010 | #744 | 305 | 0.0159% |
| 2009 | #742 | 312 | 0.0157% |
| 2008 | #1,009 | 191 | 0.0094% |
| 2007 | #997 | 195 | 0.0094% |
| 2006 | #1,277 | 131 | 0.0064% |
| 2005 | #1,046 | 159 | 0.0080% |
| 2004 | #1,305 | 114 | 0.0057% |
| 2003 | #1,500 | 86 | 0.0044% |
| 2002 | #1,662 | 71 | 0.0037% |
| 2001 | #1,681 | 69 | 0.0036% |
| 2000 | #1,745 | 64 | 0.0033% |
| 1999 | #2,206 | 42 | 0.0022% |
| 1998 | #1,965 | 49 | 0.0026% |
| 1997 | #2,206 | 39 | 0.0021% |
| 1996 | #2,943 | 25 | 0.0013% |
| 1995 | #2,257 | 35 | 0.0018% |
| 1994 | #2,519 | 30 | 0.0016% |
| 1993 | #4,067 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 1992 | #3,249 | 20 | 0.0010% |
| 1991 | #6,073 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1990 | #4,745 | 11 | 0.0005% |
| 1988 | #6,601 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1987 | #7,208 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1979 | #6,263 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1978 | #5,202 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 1977 | #4,252 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 1976 | #5,070 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 1975 | #4,939 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 1974 | #4,279 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1973 | #3,501 | 9 | 0.0006% |
| 1971 | #4,516 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1970 | #4,866 | 5 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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