Jaxon

Jaxon is the twenty-first-century American respelling of Jackson, the surname meaning son of Jack that itself exploded into boys' given-name use in the 2000s. Switching the ck to an x gives the name an extra torque, a bit of skate-park, a dash of action-figure. It emerged as a distinct top-100 name around 2013 and now sits near number 96. The Old English roots run back through John, gift of God, but that ancestry is essentially vestigial here; Jaxon is a name that announces its decade. The two syllables land hard and bright, unmistakably contemporary, the sound of a boy with scraped knees and opinions about dinosaurs.