Lexis
#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births · Last seen for boys in 2012 at #12,274
Given to girls 98.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1998 · 217 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,314since 1982
Lexis over time
Rank among girls' names. Lexis has never cracked the top 900 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #13,208 | 6 | — | |
| 2024 | #12,161 | 7 | — | |
| 2023 | #8,486 | 12 | — | |
| 2022 | #9,680 | 10 | — | |
| 2021 | #11,146 | 8 | — | |
| 2020 | #11,090 | 8 | — | |
| 2019 | #8,597 | 12 | — | |
| 2018 | #10,545 | 9 | — | |
| 2017 | #8,776 | 12 | — | |
| 2016 | #5,622 | 23 | — | |
| 2015 | #4,144 | 35 | — | |
| 2014 | #3,778 | 40 | — | |
| 2013 | #3,465 | 45 | — | |
| 2012 | #2,548 | 71 | #12,274 | 5 |
| 2011 | #2,346 | 79 | — | |
| 2010 | #2,118 | 93 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,860 | 114 | #10,994 | 6 |
| 2008 | #2,206 | 90 | #12,553 | 5 |
| 2007 | #1,894 | 109 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,608 | 133 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,681 | 118 | #8,299 | 8 |
| 2004 | #1,231 | 178 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,242 | 169 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,228 | 163 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,111 | 190 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,098 | 187 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,103 | 180 | — | |
| 1998 | #948 | 217 | #8,479 | 6 |
| 1997 | #982 | 199 | — | |
| 1996 | #964 | 199 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,067 | 167 | #5,928 | 9 |
| 1994 | #1,239 | 139 | #8,800 | 5 |
| 1993 | #1,653 | 91 | — | |
| 1992 | #2,191 | 61 | — | |
| 1991 | #2,388 | 53 | — | |
| 1990 | #3,523 | 30 | — | |
| 1989 | #6,160 | 13 | — | |
| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 | — | |
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| 1986 | #6,612 | 10 | — | |
| 1985 | #7,563 | 8 | — | |
| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 | — | |
| 1983 | #9,015 | 6 | — | |
| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Lexis! It came in at #7,469, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1987, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Lexis is popular in 1998
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Minnesota#411 · 1 in 2,527
- Washington#518 · 1 in 2,923
- Pennsylvania#609 · 1 in 4,485
- Louisiana#616 · 1 in 3,642
- Missouri#618 · 1 in 4,241
Best ever in a state: #309 in Nebraska, 2001.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Minnesota | #411 | 10 | 1 in 2,527 |
| Washington | #518 | 10 | 1 in 2,923 |
| Pennsylvania | #609 | 13 | 1 in 4,485 |
| Louisiana | #616 | 6 | 1 in 3,642 |
| Missouri | #618 | 7 | 1 in 4,241 |
| Massachusetts | #653 | 6 | 1 in 5,317 |
| Ohio | #653 | 12 | 1 in 5,135 |
| Maryland | #712 | 5 | 1 in 4,788 |
| Arizona | #791 | 6 | 1 in 4,869 |
| Indiana | #830 | 5 | 1 in 6,616 |
| Michigan | #886 | 7 | 1 in 7,360 |
| Illinois | #973 | 9 | 1 in 7,824 |
| Texas | #980 | 19 | 1 in 7,550 |
| Florida | #1,035 | 9 | 1 in 8,253 |
| New York | #1,058 | 12 | 1 in 8,393 |
| California | #1,721 | 12 | 1 in 18,418 |
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See more about Lexis
- 1,047 spots since 2024 (#12,161 → #13,208)
- 2,118 spots since 2020 (#11,090 → #13,208)
- 9,064 spots since 2015 (#4,144 → #13,208)
- Biggest jump: 103 spots in 1996 (#1,067 → #964)
- Biggest drop: 155 spots in 1999 (#948 → #1,103)
- Debuted 1982
- Peaked 1998 at #948 (217 births)
- Births halved by 2008, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 3 yrs · run 1996–1998
- Highest: 1 in 8,143 girls born in 1998 were named Lexis (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 267,878 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 43.8% of all girls named Lexis (1,451) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 57 | #6,160 (1989) | #8,069 |
| 1990s | 1,336 | #948 (1998) | #1,606 |
| 2000s | 1,451 | #1,098 (2000) | #1,516 |
| 2010s | 419 | #2,118 (2010) | #5,194 |
| 2020s | 51 | #8,486 (2023) | #10,962 |
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.
Lexis in 1998
Top girls' names in 1998
Top boys' names in 1998
More about 1998
girls
1,766,949 girls got a published name in 1998; 1 in 8,143 of them was named Lexis, which outranked 94.3% of the 16,601 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,911,366 boys got a published name in 1998; 1 in 318,561 of them was named Lexis, which outranked 25.0% of the 11,311 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #7,560Ziyad7
- #7,560Zong7
- #7,560Zoran7
- #8,479Lexis6
- #8,479Abby6
- #8,479Abd6
- #8,479Abdi6
- #9,631Aadil5
- #9,631Aaliyah5
- #9,631Aaronmichael5
Tied with 1,151 names at #8,479; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.