Meaning and history
From an English surname, Dax was derived either from the town of Dax in France or from the Old English given name Dæcca, whose meaning is unknown. The name gained public attention through the main character in the 1966 novel The Adventurers and its 1970 film adaptation, and it became more popular in the 2010s because it resembles names such as Max and Jax.
20062006: 163 births, rank #1,081
2007: 213 births, rank #931
2008: 289 births, rank #769
2009: 284 births, rank #791
2010: 293 births, rank #764
20112011: 322 births, rank #710
2012: 379 births, rank #634
2013: 382 births, rank #642
2014: 450 births, rank #600
2015: 520 births, rank #551
20162016: 574 births, rank #518
2017: 665 births, rank #455
2018: 662 births, rank #451
2019: 749 births, rank #413
2020: 635 births, rank #468
20212021: 647 births, rank #462
2022: 702 births, rank #443
2023: 520 births, rank #559
2024: 438 births, rank #641
20252025: 393 births, rank #692
Dax moved from #641 to #692 for boys between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 2019, with 749 births.