Bexley

Where Bexley comes from

From Old English byxe (“box tree”) + leah (“wood”), equivalent to box + -ley (“lea”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Bexley
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 2009
    First appearance
    #15,242 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2021
    Peak, #752
    378 babies named Bexley — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes

No widely known Bexley turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.