Entry № 2351 · French origin

Dax Dax — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ DAKS /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"From Dax / leader (Dax Shepard; Star Trek's Jadzia Dax)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "from dax / leader (dax shepard; star trek's jadzia dax)".

Dax is from the French place name Dax (a southwestern French spa town) — possibly also a modern American invented name. Dax Riggs — American singer (Acid Bath). Dax-Devlon Ross — modern American figure.

From Dax / leader.

The name in its native script.

Dax
Transliteration
Dax
Pronunciation
/ dæks /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Dax stands.

Dax does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Daxs before her.

Real people
Dax Shepard
American Armchair Expert podcast host.
born 1975
Dax Hill
American NFL safety.
born 2000
In fiction
Jadzia Dax
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
1993

Names connected to Dax.

The number behind Dax.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Dax reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.