Alexia

#1,040 for girls in 2025, 239 births · Last seen for boys in 2006 at #10,662
Given to girls 99.9% of the time

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Peak · girls
2002 · 2,691 births
Debut · girls
7 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
46,192
since 1916

Alexia over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Alexia has never cracked the top 100 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201956peak #128, 2002girls
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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#1,040239—
2024#884305—
2023#815342—
2022#831337—
2021#881309—
2020#732373—
2019#632471—
2018#519604—
2017#412771—
2016#378868—
2015#3191,019—
2014#2701,224—
2013#1751,833—
2012#2511,288—
2011#2771,150—
2010#2451,297—
2009#2201,474—
2008#2131,610—
2007#1791,946—
2006#1652,132#10,6626
2005#1602,126#11,4725
2004#1322,449#7,5369
2003#1332,495#7,8318
2002#1282,691#9,3926
2001#1432,295—
2000#1652,019—
1999#1881,651—
1998#2291,365—
1997#2591,119—
1996#2661,077—
1995#304912—
1994#310881—
1993#367692—
1992#522456—
1991#508464—
1990#559422—
1989#648318—
1988#711266—
1987#793221#6,9515
1986#1,001154—
1985#987154—
1984#935157—
1983#918162—
1982#710244—
1981#846184—
1980#1,016143#6,2505
1979#1,144116—
1978#1,36686—
1977#1,42978—
1976#1,20694—
1975#1,111105—
1974#1,30082—
1973#1,57059—
1972#1,89044—
1971#2,03541—
1970#1,87746—
1969#1,46564—
1968#1,47359—
1967#1,65947—
1966#1,66945—
1965#1,63547—
1964#3,10817—
1963#2,70421—
1962#2,16330—
1961#2,54323—
1960#2,01332—
1959#2,86917—
1958#4,1939—
1957#2,72718—
1956#3,04815—
1955#2,10826—
1954#2,51919—
1953#2,12224—
1952#2,26621—
1951#2,69415—
1950#2,43617—
1949#2,51416—
1948#2,25519—
1947#2,20020—
1946#2,73913—
1945#2,33914—
1944#2,76211—
1943#2,69512—
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First appearance
1916

The first year at least five girls were named Alexia! It came in at #3,552, and was given to 7 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1917–1920, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Alexia is popular in 1956

No state had 5 or more girls named Alexia in 1956, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Alexia
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 156 spots since 2024 (#884 → #1,040)
  • 308 spots since 2020 (#732 → #1,040)
  • 721 spots since 2015 (#319 → #1,040)
  • Biggest jump: 208 spots in 1987 (#1,001 → #793)
  • Biggest drop: 208 spots in 1983 (#710 → #918)
Rise & fade · girls
86 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1916
  • Peaked 2002 at #128 (2,691 births)
  • Births halved by 2010, 8 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 43 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 43 yrs · run 1987–2024
Share of babies · girls
1 in 668
  • Highest: 1 in 668 girls born in 2002 were named Alexia (0.15%)
  • Latest: 1 in 6,725 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 46.0% of all girls named Alexia (21,237) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s12#3,552 (1916)#4,183
1920s34#3,393 (1924)#4,168
1930s15#4,204 (1935)#4,263
1940s105#2,200 (1947)#2,501
1950s181#2,108 (1955)#2,698
1960s385#1,465 (1969)#2,043
1970s751#1,111 (1975)#1,493
1980s2,003#648 (1989)#857
1990s9,039#188 (1999)#351
2000s21,237#128 (2002)#164
2010s10,525#175 (2013)#348
2020s1,905#732 (2020)#864

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.

Alexia in 1956

girls
#3,048
15 births · 1 in 133,847 girls

Top girls' names in 1956

  1. #1Mary61,741
  2. #2Debra48,324
  3. #3Linda48,084
  4. #4Deborah47,834
  5. #5Susan46,558
  6. #6Patricia43,329
  7. #7Karen40,052
  8. #8Cynthia32,339
  9. #9Barbara32,302
  10. #10Donna29,852
  11. #3,048Alexia15
More about 1956

girls

2,007,703 girls got a published name in 1956; 1 in 133,847 of them was named Alexia, which outranked 55.8% of the 6,891 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Alexia
  1. #2,929Wendolyn16
  2. #2,929Willow16
  3. #2,929Zenaida16
  4. #3,048Alexia15
  5. #3,048Adina15
  6. #3,048Aggie15
  7. #3,048Alfred15
  8. #3,186Aaron14
  9. #3,186Adel14
  10. #3,186Alise14

Tied with 137 names at #3,048; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1955
Risers
  1. ↑ 993Sheena#1,839 → #846
  2. ↑ 770Glendora#1,733 → #963
  3. ↑ 684Leesa#1,209 → #525
  4. ↑ 543Marisa#1,074 → #531
  5. ↑ 537Dani#1,383 → #846
Fallers
  1. ↓ 513Sheilah#663 → #1,176
  2. ↓ 481Jeryl#768 → #1,249
  3. ↓ 344Jacalyn#496 → #840
  4. ↓ 325Roni#536 → #861
  5. ↓ 314Florine#984 → #1,298

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

See the top 100 for 1956 →