Alexei

Last seen for girls in 2022 at #13,592 · #3,240 for boys in 2025, 36 births
Given to boys 92.1% of the time

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Peak · boys
2000 · 48 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,369
since 1961

Alexei over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202012peak #7,532, 1998peak #2,087, 2000girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025—#3,24036
2024—#2,75047
2023—#3,41634
2022#13,5926#2,83045
2021#15,2515#2,55251
2020—#2,88641
2019—#2,69447
2018—#3,10637
2017—#3,12337
2016—#3,29334
2015#14,4826#2,96639
2014—#3,15435
2013—#3,33932
2012—#4,00325
2011#16,7645#3,60529
2010#13,4487#3,12836
2009—#3,63929
2008#17,5045#2,94640
2007#15,4916#3,79327
2006—#2,93238
2005—#2,49345
2004#11,6248#2,95334
2003#15,7845#2,78035
2002#11,1088#2,75534
2001#15,3525#2,15148
2000#13,1546#2,08748
1999#11,3857#3,03127
1998#7,53212#2,45035
1997#9,0179#2,61330
1996#8,13210#3,10723
1995—#3,43219
1994—#2,84725
1993#10,5887#3,50118
1992—#3,45918
1991—#8,2365
1990—#8,1175
1989—#5,6158
1988—#4,16211
1987—#4,9688
1986—#4,8538
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1984—#4,2159
1983—#4,4998
1982—#3,28213
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1980—#4,1349
1979—#4,4038
1978—#3,40011
1977—#3,60610
1976—#5,5875
1975—#2,90213
1974—#4,1907
1973—#3,6948
1972—#4,9865
1971—#4,9075
1970—#2,89111
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1968—#2,31113
1967—#3,5596
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First appearance
1961

The first year at least five boys were named Alexei! It came in at #4,065, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1961–1966, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Alexei is popular in 2012

No state had 5 or more boys named Alexei in 2012, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Alexei
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 490 spots since 2024 (#2,750 → #3,240)
  • 354 spots since 2020 (#2,886 → #3,240)
  • 274 spots since 2015 (#2,966 → #3,240)
Rise & fade · boys
39 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1961
  • Peaked 2000 at #2,087 (48 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 34,304
  • Highest: 1 in 34,304 boys born in 2021 were named Alexei (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 47,447 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #2,087 in 2000, was only 1 in 40,917 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2000s
  • 27.6% of all boys named Alexei (378) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
  • The majority has never changed
all girlsall boys
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s24#2,311 (1968)#3,312
1970s83#2,891 (1970)#4,057
1980s74#3,282 (1982)#4,466
1990s205#2,450 (1998)#4,079
2000s378#2,087 (2000)#2,853
2010s351#2,694 (2019)#3,241
2020s254#2,552 (2021)#2,946

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Alexei in 2012

boys
#4,003
25 births · 1 in 75,878 boys

Top boys' names in 2012

  1. #1Jacob19,110
  2. #2Mason18,994
  3. #3Ethan17,697
  4. #4Noah17,385
  5. #5William16,917
  6. #6Liam16,824
  7. #7Michael16,211
  8. #8Jayden16,152
  9. #9Alexander15,259
  10. #10Aiden14,924
  11. #4,003Alexei25
More about 2012

boys

1,896,946 boys got a published name in 2012; 1 in 75,878 of them was named Alexei, which outranked 71.9% of the 14,250 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Alexei
  1. #3,894Wyatte26
  2. #3,894Yannick26
  3. #3,894Zakkary26
  4. #4,003Alexei25
  5. #4,003Advait25
  6. #4,003Aeron25
  7. #4,003Alban25
  8. #4,131Aaren24
  9. #4,131Adonijah24
  10. #4,131Aidenn24

Tied with 127 names at #4,003; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2011
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,237Jionni#2,105 → #868
  2. ↑ 551Foster#1,544 → #993
  3. ↑ 504Major#990 → #486
  4. ↑ 433Kase#1,395 → #962
  5. ↑ 428Jael#1,411 → #983
Fallers
  1. ↓ 241Jerimiah#889 → #1,130
  2. ↓ 235Lathan#932 → #1,167
  3. ↓ 229Jorden#676 → #905
  4. ↓ 209Kyron#886 → #1,095
  5. ↓ 207Jakobe#928 → #1,135

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2012 →