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 1997
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Florida#1,314 · 1 in 12,225
- California#2,076 · 1 in 24,761
Best ever in a state: #423 in Iowa, 1995.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Florida | #1,314 | 6 | 1 in 12,225 |
| California | #2,076 | 9 | 1 in 24,761 |
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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 1997
Top girls' names in 1997
Top boys' names in 1997
More about 1997
girls
1,740,710 girls got a published name in 1997; 1 in 33,475 of them was named Alyx, which outranked 84.7% of the 16,163 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,450Tanika53
- #2,450Taylore53
- #2,450Violeta53
- #2,481Alyx52
- #2,481Alaya52
- #2,481Aliana52
- #2,481Ashlynne52
- #2,511Adara51
- #2,511Adia51
- #2,511Aleyah51
Tied with 29 names at #2,481; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,885,140 boys got a published name in 1997; 1 in 209,460 of them was named Alyx, which outranked 43.6% of the 10,814 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #5,642Zedrick10
- #5,642Ziare10
- #5,642Zvi10
- #6,100Alyx9
- #6,100Ab9
- #6,100Abdulmalik9
- #6,100Abdulrahim9
- #6,618Abanoub8
- #6,618Abdalla8
- #6,618Abed8
Tied with 517 names at #6,100; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.