Axel
431
Babies in 2024
+401%
10-year change
2022
Peak · 547
-9%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Axel
Axel is a rising UK boy's name. Registrations in 2024 (431) are up 401% on a decade earlier — one of the steeper climbs in the ONS data for England & Wales.
Axel reached its peak in 2022, when 547 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #100 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 431 represents 79% of the peak.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 3,579 boys have been officially registered with the name Axel in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 3,110 boys were registered with the name, starting from 86 in 2014 and ending at 431 in 2024.