Alyx
#10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births · #12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
Given to girls 87.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1993 · 78 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,295since 1978
Alyx 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 | #10,917 | 8 | #12,008 | 5 |
| 2024 | #7,594 | 14 | #10,938 | 6 |
| 2023 | #7,640 | 14 | — | |
| 2022 | #6,707 | 17 | #8,990 | 8 |
| 2021 | #5,573 | 22 | #12,146 | 5 |
| 2020 | #4,358 | 31 | #7,034 | 11 |
| 2019 | #5,306 | 24 | #8,889 | 8 |
| 2018 | #4,768 | 28 | #9,670 | 7 |
| 2017 | #5,821 | 21 | #10,775 | 6 |
| 2016 | #5,622 | 23 | — | |
| 2015 | #4,853 | 28 | — | |
| 2014 | #5,797 | 22 | #10,717 | 6 |
| 2013 | #5,644 | 23 | — | |
| 2012 | #5,398 | 25 | #10,770 | 6 |
| 2011 | #4,681 | 30 | — | |
| 2010 | #4,974 | 28 | #12,231 | 5 |
| 2009 | #4,196 | 36 | — | |
| 2008 | #4,882 | 30 | #9,019 | 8 |
| 2007 | #4,675 | 31 | #8,915 | 8 |
| 2006 | #3,992 | 37 | #12,055 | 5 |
| 2005 | #5,113 | 25 | #11,472 | 5 |
| 2004 | #4,816 | 27 | #6,976 | 10 |
| 2003 | #4,943 | 25 | — | |
| 2002 | #4,280 | 29 | — | |
| 2001 | #3,940 | 32 | #6,445 | 10 |
| 2000 | #3,983 | 31 | #9,112 | 6 |
| 1999 | #3,569 | 34 | — | |
| 1998 | #3,068 | 41 | #7,560 | 7 |
| 1997 | #2,481 | 52 | #6,100 | 9 |
| 1996 | #2,372 | 55 | #6,496 | 8 |
| 1995 | #2,101 | 64 | #6,407 | 8 |
| 1994 | #2,701 | 45 | #5,868 | 9 |
| 1993 | #1,841 | 78 | #7,638 | 6 |
| 1992 | #2,687 | 45 | #8,435 | 5 |
| 1991 | #2,519 | 49 | — | |
| 1990 | #3,297 | 33 | — | |
| 1989 | #3,253 | 32 | #7,905 | 5 |
| 1988 | #3,306 | 29 | — | |
| 1987 | #3,857 | 22 | — | |
| 1986 | #4,724 | 16 | — | |
| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 | — | |
| 1984 | #6,291 | 10 | — | |
| 1983 | #9,015 | 6 | — | |
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 | — | |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 | — | |
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| 1978 | #7,649 | 7 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Alyx! It came in at #7,649, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1979–1982, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Alyx is popular in 1991
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- California#2,025 · 1 in 26,153
Best ever in a state: #423 in Iowa, 1995.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| California | #2,025 | 10 | 1 in 26,153 |
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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 Alyx
- 3,323 spots since 2024 (#7,594 → #10,917)
- 6,559 spots since 2020 (#4,358 → #10,917)
- 6,064 spots since 2015 (#4,853 → #10,917)
- Debuted 1978
- Peaked 1993 at #1,841 (78 births)
- Births halved by 1999, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 23,193 girls born in 1993 were named Alyx (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 200,908 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 38.3% of all girls named Alyx (496) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 7 | #7,649 (1978) | #7,649 |
| 1980s | 131 | #3,253 (1989) | #6,742 |
| 1990s | 496 | #1,841 (1993) | #2,664 |
| 2000s | 303 | #3,940 (2001) | #4,482 |
| 2010s | 252 | #4,681 (2011) | #5,286 |
| 2020s | 106 | #4,358 (2020) | #7,132 |
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.
Alyx in 1991
Top girls' names in 1991
More about 1991
girls
1,875,007 girls got a published name in 1991; 1 in 38,265 of them was named Alyx, which outranked 83.7% of the 15,466 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,484Tesha50
- #2,484Winona50
- #2,484Yecenia50
- #2,519Alyx49
- #2,519Allana49
- #2,519Angelena49
- #2,519Anisa49
- #2,550Adelaide48
- #2,550Alberta48
- #2,550Aliyah48
Tied with 30 names at #2,519; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.