#3152024 rank
2015peak year
20,508babies named Jax since 1880
▼ 32%5-year trend
Jax popularity over 145 years
⭐ Sweet spot — known but not everywhere · roughly undefined% girls / NaN% boys in 2024
What does Jax mean?
A punchy modern coinage, a phonetic respelling of Jacks or a clipped form of Jackson, itself 'son of Jack'. Purely a twenty-first-century creation.
OriginModern American
Syllables1
Genderboy
Stylemodern, classic
Names like Jax
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Famous Jaxs
Spellings & variants
JaxxJaxon
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