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How popular is the name Jax?
Births per year, rank history and how many Jaxes are alive today.
Jax (male) sits just outside the top 100 boys' names in England and Wales, ranked 145th in 2025 with 366 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2023, when 602 babies were given the name, the 87th most popular that year. Numbers have been stable in recent years. At least 5,000 babies have been named Jax in England and Wales since 2000. Jax is also a common short form of John, so many people called Jax are registered under the longer name.
The Jax you are most likely to meet is around 4 years old. Half of all Jaxes born in England and Wales are between 3 and 9, and there are at least 5,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's roughly a 1.6% chance that at least one of them will be called Jax.
How many babies are named Jax each year?
Where does Jax rank among boys' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Jax most popular?
Jax peaked in 2023, when 602 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Jax?
At least 5,000 people named Jax born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Jax?
Most living Jaxes are between 3 and 9; the most common age is about 4.
Is Jax becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.