as a Last Name
- 1,090
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Axe
Meaning & Origins
English: evidently a metonymic occupational name for a woodman. A further possible origin is from the French place name element Ax (etymologically identical to Aix), from Latin aquis (dative or ablative plural) ‘near the waters’, denoting a spa.
| 21,666th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 1,090
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Pennsylvania
- has the most people named Axe per capita
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