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
- Peak · boys
- 2000 · 48 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,369since 1961
Alexei over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #3,240 | 36 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,750 | 47 | |
| 2023 | — | #3,416 | 34 | |
| 2022 | #13,592 | 6 | #2,830 | 45 |
| 2021 | #15,251 | 5 | #2,552 | 51 |
| 2020 | — | #2,886 | 41 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,694 | 47 | |
| 2018 | — | #3,106 | 37 | |
| 2017 | — | #3,123 | 37 | |
| 2016 | — | #3,293 | 34 | |
| 2015 | #14,482 | 6 | #2,966 | 39 |
| 2014 | — | #3,154 | 35 | |
| 2013 | — | #3,339 | 32 | |
| 2012 | — | #4,003 | 25 | |
| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 | #3,605 | 29 |
| 2010 | #13,448 | 7 | #3,128 | 36 |
| 2009 | — | #3,639 | 29 | |
| 2008 | #17,504 | 5 | #2,946 | 40 |
| 2007 | #15,491 | 6 | #3,793 | 27 |
| 2006 | — | #2,932 | 38 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,493 | 45 | |
| 2004 | #11,624 | 8 | #2,953 | 34 |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 | #2,780 | 35 |
| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 | #2,755 | 34 |
| 2001 | #15,352 | 5 | #2,151 | 48 |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 | #2,087 | 48 |
| 1999 | #11,385 | 7 | #3,031 | 27 |
| 1998 | #7,532 | 12 | #2,450 | 35 |
| 1997 | #9,017 | 9 | #2,613 | 30 |
| 1996 | #8,132 | 10 | #3,107 | 23 |
| 1995 | — | #3,432 | 19 | |
| 1994 | — | #2,847 | 25 | |
| 1993 | #10,588 | 7 | #3,501 | 18 |
| 1992 | — | #3,459 | 18 | |
| 1991 | — | #8,236 | 5 | |
| 1990 | — | #8,117 | 5 | |
| 1989 | — | #5,615 | 8 | |
| 1988 | — | #4,162 | 11 | |
| 1987 | — | #4,968 | 8 | |
| 1986 | — | #4,853 | 8 | |
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| 1984 | — | #4,215 | 9 | |
| 1983 | — | #4,499 | 8 | |
| 1982 | — | #3,282 | 13 | |
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| 1980 | — | #4,134 | 9 | |
| 1979 | — | #4,403 | 8 | |
| 1978 | — | #3,400 | 11 | |
| 1977 | — | #3,606 | 10 | |
| 1976 | — | #5,587 | 5 | |
| 1975 | — | #2,902 | 13 | |
| 1974 | — | #4,190 | 7 | |
| 1973 | — | #3,694 | 8 | |
| 1972 | — | #4,986 | 5 | |
| 1971 | — | #4,907 | 5 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,891 | 11 | |
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| 1968 | — | #2,311 | 13 | |
| 1967 | — | #3,559 | 6 | |
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| 1961 | — | #4,065 | 5 | |
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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 2019
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#1,765 · 1 in 18,710
- California#2,212 · 1 in 33,859
- Texas#2,393 · 1 in 34,907
Best ever in a state: #805 in New Jersey, 1994.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #1,765 | 5 | 1 in 18,710 |
| California | #2,212 | 6 | 1 in 33,859 |
| Texas | #2,393 | 5 | 1 in 34,907 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Alexei
- 490 spots since 2024 (#2,750 → #3,240)
- 354 spots since 2020 (#2,886 → #3,240)
- 274 spots since 2015 (#2,966 → #3,240)
- Debuted 1961
- Peaked 2000 at #2,087 (48 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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
- 27.6% of all boys named Alexei (378) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 24 | #2,311 (1968) | #3,312 |
| 1970s | 83 | #2,891 (1970) | #4,057 |
| 1980s | 74 | #3,282 (1982) | #4,466 |
| 1990s | 205 | #2,450 (1998) | #4,079 |
| 2000s | 378 | #2,087 (2000) | #2,853 |
| 2010s | 351 | #2,694 (2019) | #3,241 |
| 2020s | 254 | #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 2019
Top boys' names in 2019
More about 2019
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1,794,216 boys got a published name in 2019; 1 in 38,175 of them was named Alexei, which outranked 80.9% of the 14,133 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,656Taiden48
- #2,656Tidus48
- #2,656Tytan48
- #2,694Alexei47
- #2,694Aayansh47
- #2,694Adryan47
- #2,694Amadou47
- #2,736Artemis46
- #2,736Brison46
- #2,736Cainen46
Tied with 41 names at #2,694; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.