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 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Florida#1,581 · 1 in 15,460
- Texas#2,455 · 1 in 34,225
- California#2,497 · 1 in 37,876
Best ever in a state: #805 in New Jersey, 1994.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Florida | #1,581 | 6 | 1 in 15,460 |
| Texas | #2,455 | 5 | 1 in 34,225 |
| California | #2,497 | 5 | 1 in 37,876 |
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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 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 328,172 of them was named Alexei, which outranked 13.7% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,425 names at #15,251; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 34,304 of them was named Alexei, which outranked 81.9% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,523Saige52
- #2,523Saxon52
- #2,523Timber52
- #2,552Alexei51
- #2,552Ayoub51
- #2,552Bradyn51
- #2,552Brix51
- #2,588Adonai50
- #2,588Ameen50
- #2,588Andrey50
Tied with 35 names at #2,552; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.