Alix

#5,238 for girls in 2025, 24 births · #7,194 for boys in 2025, 11 births
Given to girls 78.4% of the time

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Peak · girls
1993 · 163 births
Debut · girls
7 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
3,584
since 1934

Alix over time

girlsboys

Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201956peak #1,104, 1993peak #1,907, 1993girlsboys
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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#5,23824#7,19411
2024#4,56030#7,76510
2023#5,12625#5,07519
2022#4,90727#8,9908
2021#4,83327#6,03214
2020#5,66721#7,03411
2019#4,43731#7,17311
2018#4,76828#7,61710
2017#4,81128#6,68512
2016#4,99027#5,12418
2015#3,98937#7,49110
2014#4,45532#5,06618
2013#3,84939#8,1189
2012#5,55724#5,25617
2011#3,91638#5,20017
2010#4,02337#5,74115
2009#4,48233#4,74820
2008#3,26751#5,48716
2007#3,28951#4,64020
2006#3,17652#5,07217
2005#2,75660#5,27815
2004#2,58964#3,86023
2003#2,26075#3,97621
2002#2,85452#3,90921
2001#2,30469#4,30218
2000#1,98584#2,99329
1999#1,82887#3,18225
1998#1,84583#3,09225
1997#1,552104#2,54631
1996#1,539103#2,67928
1995#1,279131#2,05540
1994#1,285132#2,76626
1993#1,104163#1,90743
1992#1,164151#2,25333
1991#1,117159#3,10520
1990#1,325122#2,43228
1989#1,123147#2,78422
1988#1,327108#2,68221
1987#1,37199#2,27225
1986#1,58875#3,13115
1985#2,54538#2,94216
1984#1,96152#3,27013
1983#2,97528#3,41112
1982#3,64722#3,96610
1981#3,85920#4,5098
1980#3,41124#5,5256
1979#4,62615#4,8427
1978#4,07917#5,0596
1977#6,3409#4,1648
1976#3,81217#2,94613
1975#3,25921#3,6599
1974#3,21221#3,8378
1973#2,62927#5,1015
1972#3,89415#3,15210
1971#4,12314#3,3709
1970#3,57717#4,7245
1969#3,77414#3,3148
1968#3,05718—
1967#4,05311#2,7609
1966#3,40014#2,7849
1965#4,4949#3,5376
1964#3,51514#4,0395
1963#4,27210—
1962#4,01111#4,0335
1961#4,8828—
1960#2,82019—
1959#2,76018#3,9885
1958#2,50621—
1957#2,65119—
1956#2,45321—
1955#2,47220—
1954#2,77916—
1953#3,10613—
1952#3,7969—
1951#2,57716—
1950#4,3157—
1949#2,62015—
1948#2,00823—
1947#2,20020—
1946#2,22818—
1945#2,45813—
1944#1,96719—
1943#1,75124—
1942#1,86021—
1941#2,66811—
1940#2,57211—
1939#2,9229—
1938#2,44712—
1937#3,8006—
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First appearance
1934

The first year at least five girls were named Alix! It came in at #3,449, and was given to 7 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1935–1936, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Alix is popular in 1956

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

See more about Alix
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 678 spots since 2024 (#4,560 → #5,238)
  • 429 spots since 2020 (#5,667 → #5,238)
  • 1,249 spots since 2015 (#3,989 → #5,238)
Rise & fade · girls
59 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1934
  • Peaked 1993 at #1,104 (163 births)
  • Births halved by 2001, 8 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 11,099
  • Highest: 1 in 11,099 girls born in 1993 were named Alix (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 66,969 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1990s
  • 34.5% of all girls named Alix (1,235) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1934
  • Mostly boys until 1933, mostly girls since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1930s34#2,447 (1938)#3,155
1940s175#1,751 (1943)#2,233
1950s160#2,453 (1956)#2,942
1960s128#2,820 (1960)#3,828
1970s173#2,629 (1973)#3,955
1980s613#1,123 (1989)#2,381
1990s1,235#1,104 (1993)#1,404
2000s591#1,985 (2000)#2,896
2010s321#3,849 (2013)#4,480
2020s154#4,560 (2024)#5,055

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.

Alix in 1956

girls
#2,453
21 births · 1 in 95,605 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. #2,453Alix21
More about 1956

girls

2,007,703 girls got a published name in 1956; 1 in 95,605 of them was named Alix, which outranked 64.4% 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 Alix
  1. #2,389Wynn22
  2. #2,389Zita22
  3. #2,389Zulema22
  4. #2,453Alix21
  5. #2,453Angella21
  6. #2,453Aurea21
  7. #2,453Barry21
  8. #2,530Adelia20
  9. #2,530Adonna20
  10. #2,530Alina20

Tied with 76 names at #2,453; 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 →