Alexi
#5,410 for girls in 2025, 23 births · #5,208 for boys in 2025, 18 births
Given to girls 70.6% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1998 · 185 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,220since 1968
Alexi 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,410 | 23 | #5,208 | 18 |
| 2024 | #5,021 | 26 | #4,701 | 21 |
| 2023 | #4,047 | 36 | #3,055 | 40 |
| 2022 | #4,202 | 34 | #3,617 | 31 |
| 2021 | #3,339 | 47 | #3,740 | 29 |
| 2020 | #4,263 | 32 | #4,426 | 22 |
| 2019 | #3,552 | 43 | #3,347 | 34 |
| 2018 | #3,559 | 43 | #4,354 | 23 |
| 2017 | #3,192 | 50 | #4,331 | 23 |
| 2016 | #2,412 | 77 | #4,098 | 25 |
| 2015 | #2,382 | 77 | #3,684 | 29 |
| 2014 | #2,582 | 68 | #3,532 | 30 |
| 2013 | #2,508 | 71 | #3,122 | 35 |
| 2012 | #2,095 | 91 | #3,059 | 37 |
| 2011 | #1,671 | 126 | #2,852 | 41 |
| 2010 | #1,450 | 156 | #2,730 | 44 |
| 2009 | #1,769 | 123 | #2,702 | 45 |
| 2008 | #1,573 | 145 | #1,948 | 73 |
| 2007 | #1,598 | 140 | #2,304 | 56 |
| 2006 | #1,468 | 151 | #2,310 | 54 |
| 2005 | #1,494 | 140 | #2,206 | 54 |
| 2004 | #1,498 | 134 | #1,880 | 65 |
| 2003 | #1,224 | 173 | #2,470 | 42 |
| 2002 | #1,084 | 196 | #2,470 | 40 |
| 2001 | #1,225 | 165 | #2,086 | 50 |
| 2000 | #1,210 | 164 | #2,015 | 50 |
| 1999 | #1,077 | 186 | #2,398 | 37 |
| 1998 | #1,059 | 185 | #1,899 | 51 |
| 1997 | #1,265 | 140 | #1,672 | 59 |
| 1996 | #1,201 | 150 | #1,958 | 45 |
| 1995 | #1,254 | 135 | #1,955 | 43 |
| 1994 | #1,191 | 148 | #1,977 | 42 |
| 1993 | #1,451 | 110 | #2,455 | 30 |
| 1992 | #1,740 | 85 | #1,914 | 42 |
| 1991 | #1,463 | 108 | #2,406 | 29 |
| 1990 | #1,594 | 94 | #2,488 | 27 |
| 1989 | #2,250 | 53 | #2,784 | 22 |
| 1988 | #1,863 | 66 | #3,350 | 15 |
| 1987 | #2,572 | 39 | #2,559 | 21 |
| 1986 | #3,054 | 30 | #2,779 | 18 |
| 1985 | #3,517 | 24 | #2,357 | 22 |
| 1984 | #3,613 | 22 | #2,232 | 23 |
| 1983 | #6,705 | 9 | #2,577 | 18 |
| 1982 | #5,209 | 13 | #2,269 | 22 |
| 1981 | #4,746 | 15 | #2,569 | 18 |
| 1980 | #5,544 | 12 | #3,256 | 13 |
| 1979 | #4,626 | 15 | #2,379 | 20 |
| 1978 | — | #2,669 | 16 | |
| 1977 | #6,340 | 9 | #3,203 | 12 |
| 1976 | — | #2,601 | 16 | |
| 1975 | #6,484 | 8 | #2,902 | 13 |
| 1974 | #5,360 | 10 | #3,120 | 11 |
| 1973 | — | #2,311 | 17 | |
| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 | #3,622 | 8 |
| 1971 | — | #4,375 | 6 | |
| 1970 | #6,362 | 7 | #4,230 | 6 |
| 1969 | #7,471 | 5 | #4,404 | 5 |
| 1968 | #6,246 | 6 | #4,136 | 5 |
| 1967 | — | #3,559 | 6 | |
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| 1965 | — | #3,244 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Alexi! It came in at #6,246, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1971–1973, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Alexi is popular in 1979
No state had 5 or more girls named Alexi in 1979, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Alexi
- 389 spots since 2024 (#5,021 → #5,410)
- 1,147 spots since 2020 (#4,263 → #5,410)
- 3,028 spots since 2015 (#2,382 → #5,410)
- Debuted 1968
- Peaked 1998 at #1,059 (185 births)
- Births halved by 2012, 14 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 9,168 girls born in 2002 were named Alexi (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 69,881 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,059 in 1998, was only 1 in 9,551 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 36.3% of all girls named Alexi (1,531) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2023, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 11 | #6,246 (1968) | #6,859 |
| 1970s | 54 | #4,626 (1979) | #6,244 |
| 1980s | 283 | #1,863 (1988) | #3,907 |
| 1990s | 1,341 | #1,059 (1998) | #1,330 |
| 2000s | 1,531 | #1,084 (2002) | #1,414 |
| 2010s | 802 | #1,450 (2010) | #2,540 |
| 2020s | 198 | #3,339 (2021) | #4,380 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Alexi in 1979
Top girls' names in 1979
Top boys' names in 1979
More about 1979
girls
1,605,268 girls got a published name in 1979; 1 in 107,018 of them was named Alexi, which outranked 61.4% of the 11,972 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,420Vickey16
- #4,420Xochilt16
- #4,420Yesica16
- #4,626Alexi15
- #4,626Akesha15
- #4,626Akua15
- #4,626Alicyn15
- #4,842Aarti14
- #4,842Adell14
- #4,842Alane14
Tied with 215 names at #4,626; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,721,536 boys got a published name in 1979; 1 in 86,077 of them was named Alexi, which outranked 66.4% of the 7,071 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,310Wylie21
- #2,310Yves21
- #2,310Zacharia21
- #2,379Alexi20
- #2,379Alon20
- #2,379Alvino20
- #2,379Alvis20
- #2,465Ace19
- #2,465Agapito19
- #2,465Alva19
Tied with 85 names at #2,379; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.