Aksél

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Aksél is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Danish Axel. Aksél is also written Аксель in Cyrillic.

  • NONorway1 in 840(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 921
  • LVLatvia≈1 in 3.7Kfew records

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Aksél itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Sweden (measured from records)

60,838 named Axel

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
118 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 840 (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Aksél in other scripts: Cyrillic

(measured from records)
AksélLatin(measured from records)
АксельAksél in Cyrillic(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Aksel in SE Sweden, US United States, NO Norway and 2 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)
Derivation of Aksél: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Aksél
  1. DanishAxel(measured from records)
  2. DanishAksel(inferred from the name graph)via Axel

Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.

Borrowed from Danish Axel.

Cited for this meaning 3

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Aksél counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Aksél is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden—60,838as Axel1 in 16861KAksel26
US United States—42,999as Axel1 in 7.7K43KAksel118
EC Ecuador—18,810as Axel1 in 89919K—5
ES Spain—7,207as Axel1 in 6.9K7.2KAksel8
NO Norway#3856,5091 in 84024KAksel80
DK Denmark#2586,3751 in 9216.4KAksel108
IS Iceland—545as Axel1 in 644545——

60,838 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population), counting the spelling axel. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INEC — civil registry names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Aksél is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Turkish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, Belgium, Cyprus

    Also written Aksel, Akşel

  • Spanish given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Aksel, Aksel', Kusaila

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Aksél under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Aksél mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Danish Axel. Recorded by TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary) and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
Is Aksél a male or female name?
Aksél is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
Which countries have the most people named Aksél?
In Sweden, the national register counted about 61 thousand people named Axel, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Ecuador, Spain and Norway; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Aksél most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Aksél is densest in Norway — about 1 in 840 people — even though Sweden holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Aksél?
In Norway, the national register counted 6,509 people named Aksél in 2025, about 1 in 840 residents.
How common is Aksél compared with other names?
In Denmark, Aksél is the 258th most common given name of 23,174 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Aksél” — ranked 60th in Sweden (Skatteverket). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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