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
- Peak · girls
- 2002 · 2,691 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 46,192since 1916
Alexia over time
Rank among girls' names. Alexia has never cracked the top 100 here.
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 | #1,040 | 239 | — | |
| 2024 | #884 | 305 | — | |
| 2023 | #815 | 342 | — | |
| 2022 | #831 | 337 | — | |
| 2021 | #881 | 309 | — | |
| 2020 | #732 | 373 | — | |
| 2019 | #632 | 471 | — | |
| 2018 | #519 | 604 | — | |
| 2017 | #412 | 771 | — | |
| 2016 | #378 | 868 | — | |
| 2015 | #319 | 1,019 | — | |
| 2014 | #270 | 1,224 | — | |
| 2013 | #175 | 1,833 | — | |
| 2012 | #251 | 1,288 | — | |
| 2011 | #277 | 1,150 | — | |
| 2010 | #245 | 1,297 | — | |
| 2009 | #220 | 1,474 | — | |
| 2008 | #213 | 1,610 | — | |
| 2007 | #179 | 1,946 | — | |
| 2006 | #165 | 2,132 | #10,662 | 6 |
| 2005 | #160 | 2,126 | #11,472 | 5 |
| 2004 | #132 | 2,449 | #7,536 | 9 |
| 2003 | #133 | 2,495 | #7,831 | 8 |
| 2002 | #128 | 2,691 | #9,392 | 6 |
| 2001 | #143 | 2,295 | — | |
| 2000 | #165 | 2,019 | — | |
| 1999 | #188 | 1,651 | — | |
| 1998 | #229 | 1,365 | — | |
| 1997 | #259 | 1,119 | — | |
| 1996 | #266 | 1,077 | — | |
| 1995 | #304 | 912 | — | |
| 1994 | #310 | 881 | — | |
| 1993 | #367 | 692 | — | |
| 1992 | #522 | 456 | — | |
| 1991 | #508 | 464 | — | |
| 1990 | #559 | 422 | — | |
| 1989 | #648 | 318 | — | |
| 1988 | #711 | 266 | — | |
| 1987 | #793 | 221 | #6,951 | 5 |
| 1986 | #1,001 | 154 | — | |
| 1985 | #987 | 154 | — | |
| 1984 | #935 | 157 | — | |
| 1983 | #918 | 162 | — | |
| 1982 | #710 | 244 | — | |
| 1981 | #846 | 184 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,016 | 143 | #6,250 | 5 |
| 1979 | #1,144 | 116 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,366 | 86 | — | |
| 1977 | #1,429 | 78 | — | |
| 1976 | #1,206 | 94 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,111 | 105 | — | |
| 1974 | #1,300 | 82 | — | |
| 1973 | #1,570 | 59 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,890 | 44 | — | |
| 1971 | #2,035 | 41 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,877 | 46 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,465 | 64 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,473 | 59 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,659 | 47 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,669 | 45 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,635 | 47 | — | |
| 1964 | #3,108 | 17 | — | |
| 1963 | #2,704 | 21 | — | |
| 1962 | #2,163 | 30 | — | |
| 1961 | #2,543 | 23 | — | |
| 1960 | #2,013 | 32 | — | |
| 1959 | #2,869 | 17 | — | |
| 1958 | #4,193 | 9 | — | |
| 1957 | #2,727 | 18 | — | |
| 1956 | #3,048 | 15 | — | |
| 1955 | #2,108 | 26 | — | |
| 1954 | #2,519 | 19 | — | |
| 1953 | #2,122 | 24 | — | |
| 1952 | #2,266 | 21 | — | |
| 1951 | #2,694 | 15 | — | |
| 1950 | #2,436 | 17 | — | |
| 1949 | #2,514 | 16 | — | |
| 1948 | #2,255 | 19 | — | |
| 1947 | #2,200 | 20 | — | |
| 1946 | #2,739 | 13 | — | |
| 1945 | #2,339 | 14 | — | |
| 1944 | #2,762 | 11 | — | |
| 1943 | #2,695 | 12 | — | |
| 1942 | — | — | ||
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| 1937 | #4,255 | 5 | — | |
| 1936 | — | — | ||
| 1935 | #4,204 | 5 | — | |
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| 1931 | #4,331 | 5 | — | |
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| 1927 | #4,805 | 5 | — | |
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| 1924 | #3,393 | 9 | — | |
| 1923 | #4,967 | 5 | — | |
| 1922 | #4,011 | 7 | — | |
| 1921 | #3,666 | 8 | — | |
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| 1919 | #4,814 | 5 | — | |
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| 1916 | #3,552 | 7 | — | |
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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 1979
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Massachusetts#523 · 1 in 5,108
- Washington#645 · 1 in 5,064
- Florida#797 · 1 in 6,696
- Illinois#897 · 1 in 8,299
- California#940 · 1 in 8,596
Best ever in a state: #37 in Rhode Island, 2006.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | #523 | 6 | 1 in 5,108 |
| Washington | #645 | 5 | 1 in 5,064 |
| Florida | #797 | 7 | 1 in 6,696 |
| Illinois | #897 | 9 | 1 in 8,299 |
| California | #940 | 19 | 1 in 8,596 |
| Pennsylvania | #995 | 5 | 1 in 13,682 |
| Texas | #1,160 | 9 | 1 in 12,345 |
| New York | #1,424 | 6 | 1 in 16,487 |
| Alabama | — | — | — |
| Alaska | — | — | — |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls 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 Alexia
- 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)
- Debuted 1916
- Peaked 2002 at #128 (2,691 births)
- Births halved by 2010, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 43 yrs · run 1987–2024
- Highest: 1 in 668 girls born in 2002 were named Alexia (0.15%)
- Latest: 1 in 6,725 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 46.0% of all girls named Alexia (21,237) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 12 | #3,552 (1916) | #4,183 |
| 1920s | 34 | #3,393 (1924) | #4,168 |
| 1930s | 15 | #4,204 (1935) | #4,263 |
| 1940s | 105 | #2,200 (1947) | #2,501 |
| 1950s | 181 | #2,108 (1955) | #2,698 |
| 1960s | 385 | #1,465 (1969) | #2,043 |
| 1970s | 751 | #1,111 (1975) | #1,493 |
| 1980s | 2,003 | #648 (1989) | #857 |
| 1990s | 9,039 | #188 (1999) | #351 |
| 2000s | 21,237 | #128 (2002) | #164 |
| 2010s | 10,525 | #175 (2013) | #348 |
| 2020s | 1,905 | #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 1979
Top girls' names in 1979
More about 1979
girls
1,605,268 girls got a published name in 1979; 1 in 13,839 of them was named Alexia, which outranked 90.4% 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).
- #1,140Kindra117
- #1,140Rosalind117
- #1,140Tarah117
- #1,144Alexia116
- #1,144Chaya116
- #1,144Dixie116
- #1,144Elana116
- #1,154Bobby115
- #1,154Christel115
- #1,154Della115
Tied with 9 names at #1,144; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.