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Aksel

A Germanic name that reached Poland by way of Scandinavia, carrying the sense "father of peace". Barely 160 men hold it across the country, so meeting one stays with you.

Aksel Pronunciation

Aksel is pronounced AHK-sel (/ˈaksɛl/).

Alive in 2025
160
Newborns 2025
2
National rank
#2550

What Aksel means

Where Aksel comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Aksel is the Scandinavian shape of a name that reached the north through medieval Denmark. Its older sense is "father of peace." Danish and Norwegian speakers wore the longer Absalon down to Aksel and Axel, and Norway still enters the name on birth records today.

One documented bearer anchors the line. Absalon (c. 1128 to 1201), the archbishop who founded Copenhagen, was himself called Axel. The fortress he raised gave the young city its early name, Axelstad. Every modern Aksel descends from that same shortening.

In Poland the name comes with no diminutives, no variants, no cross-gender twin. It stands as Aksel, and nothing else. On a Polish class register it reads as plainly Scandinavian, and a teacher marks it once and keeps it. The meaning holds under the spelling: father of peace.

How many people are named Aksel

1 in 133414 men in Poland is named Aksel. 160 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2550 among male names.

People with the name Aksel 2019 → 2025
160 +33 since 2019
2020 132 +5
2021 132 ±0
2022 142 +10
2023 146 +4
2024 154 +8
2025 160 +6

Aksel's popularity over time

2 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #1423 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2020.

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2 newborns with the name Aksel in 2025
national rank #1423 that year

Where parents choose Aksel

Aksel is most popular in Lubusz, 988% above the national average (2 boys born 2019–2025), followed by West Pomeranian (+540%) and Masovian (+205%).

Chosen most
  • Lubusz
    +988%
    1 in 24,829 babies
  • West Pomeranian
    +540%
    1 in 42,213 babies
  • Masovian
    +205%
    1 in 88,566 babies

Aksel as a middle name

Aksel is a first name for 160 men in Poland and a middle name for another 80, a 67/33 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 795th, between Niko (81) and Graham (80).

As a first name
160
As a middle name
80
first name 67% middle name 33%
Middle-name ranking men

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