Alexa
#1,029 for girls in 2025, 243 births · Last seen for boys in 2020 at #12,022
Given to girls 99.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2015 · 6,053 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- 24 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 131,551since 1916
Alexa over time
Rank among girls' names. 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 | #1,029 | 243 | — | |
| 2024 | #806 | 349 | — | |
| 2023 | #606 | 492 | — | |
| 2022 | #535 | 577 | — | |
| 2021 | #440 | 708 | — | |
| 2020 | #230 | 1,285 | #12,022 | 5 |
| 2019 | #139 | 2,002 | #10,803 | 6 |
| 2018 | #90 | 3,068 | #8,819 | 8 |
| 2017 | #66 | 3,896 | #12,246 | 5 |
| 2016 | #51 | 4,775 | #12,185 | 5 |
| 2015 | #32 | 6,053 | #5,999 | 14 |
| 2014 | #64 | 4,249 | #9,642 | 7 |
| 2013 | #60 | 4,106 | #9,655 | 7 |
| 2012 | #57 | 4,297 | — | |
| 2011 | #55 | 4,510 | #8,767 | 8 |
| 2010 | #50 | 5,043 | #9,693 | 7 |
| 2009 | #43 | 5,311 | #9,864 | 7 |
| 2008 | #50 | 5,226 | #6,393 | 13 |
| 2007 | #40 | 5,785 | #8,173 | 9 |
| 2006 | #39 | 6,117 | #8,732 | 8 |
| 2005 | #66 | 4,664 | #7,096 | 10 |
| 2004 | #72 | 4,440 | #3,368 | 28 |
| 2003 | #67 | 4,598 | #9,581 | 6 |
| 2002 | #69 | 4,401 | #9,392 | 6 |
| 2001 | #78 | 3,898 | #6,013 | 11 |
| 2000 | #87 | 3,674 | #7,416 | 8 |
| 1999 | #89 | 3,644 | #7,139 | 8 |
| 1998 | #93 | 3,622 | — | |
| 1997 | #106 | 3,090 | #8,110 | 6 |
| 1996 | #100 | 3,260 | #7,971 | 6 |
| 1995 | #100 | 3,359 | — | |
| 1994 | #95 | 3,441 | #3,596 | 18 |
| 1993 | #107 | 3,037 | #5,002 | 11 |
| 1992 | #140 | 2,234 | #7,422 | 6 |
| 1991 | #127 | 2,476 | #4,760 | 11 |
| 1990 | #146 | 2,131 | #5,823 | 8 |
| 1989 | #203 | 1,305 | #7,905 | 5 |
| 1988 | #273 | 918 | #5,751 | 7 |
| 1987 | #294 | 821 | #4,573 | 9 |
| 1986 | #432 | 498 | #6,721 | 5 |
| 1985 | #816 | 200 | — | |
| 1984 | #775 | 208 | #5,561 | 6 |
| 1983 | #745 | 219 | — | |
| 1982 | #767 | 215 | — | |
| 1981 | #743 | 222 | — | |
| 1980 | #859 | 179 | — | |
| 1979 | #875 | 176 | — | |
| 1978 | #846 | 175 | — | |
| 1977 | #792 | 189 | — | |
| 1976 | #723 | 202 | — | |
| 1975 | #702 | 211 | — | |
| 1974 | #690 | 213 | — | |
| 1973 | #847 | 152 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,169 | 92 | — | |
| 1971 | #1,488 | 68 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,270 | 86 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,303 | 75 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,231 | 79 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,682 | 46 | — | |
| 1966 | #2,058 | 32 | — | |
| 1965 | #2,247 | 28 | — | |
| 1964 | #2,195 | 30 | — | |
| 1963 | #2,015 | 34 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,651 | 47 | — | |
| 1961 | #1,921 | 36 | — | |
| 1960 | #1,953 | 34 | — | |
| 1959 | #2,234 | 26 | — | |
| 1958 | #1,733 | 39 | — | |
| 1957 | #1,458 | 53 | — | |
| 1956 | #1,871 | 33 | — | |
| 1955 | #1,597 | 41 | — | |
| 1954 | #1,801 | 33 | — | |
| 1953 | #1,565 | 39 | — | |
| 1952 | #1,333 | 52 | — | |
| 1951 | #1,254 | 55 | — | |
| 1950 | #1,495 | 38 | — | |
| 1949 | #1,376 | 45 | — | |
| 1948 | #1,327 | 48 | — | |
| 1947 | #1,357 | 46 | — | |
| 1946 | #1,860 | 24 | — | |
| 1945 | #1,874 | 20 | — | |
| 1944 | #2,199 | 16 | — | |
| 1943 | #4,196 | 6 | — | |
| 1942 | #3,444 | 8 | — | |
| 1941 | #3,954 | 6 | — | |
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| 1937 | #3,434 | 7 | — | |
| 1936 | — | — | ||
| 1935 | #4,204 | 5 | — | |
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| 1931 | #4,331 | 5 | — | |
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| 1928 | #3,743 | 7 | — | |
| 1927 | #4,286 | 6 | — | |
| 1926 | #4,306 | 6 | — | |
| 1925 | #3,116 | 10 | — | |
| 1924 | #5,061 | 5 | — | |
| 1923 | #4,967 | 5 | — | |
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| 1921 | #4,464 | 6 | — | |
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| 1917 | #4,594 | 5 | — | |
| 1916 | #4,417 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Alexa! It came in at #4,417, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1916–1920, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Alexa
- 223 spots since 2024 (#806 → #1,029)
- 799 spots since 2020 (#230 → #1,029)
- 997 spots since 2015 (#32 → #1,029)
- Biggest jump: 384 spots in 1986 (#816 → #432)
- Biggest drop: 223 spots in 2025 (#806 → #1,029)
- Debuted 1916
- Peaked 2015 at #32 (6,053 births)
- Births halved by 2019, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 24 yrs · run 1998–2018
- Top 1,000: 52 yrs · run 1973–2024
- Highest: 1 in 295 girls born in 2015 were named Alexa (0.34%)
- Latest: 1 in 6,614 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 36.6% of all girls named Alexa (48,114) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 10 | #4,417 (1916) | #4,506 |
| 1920s | 45 | #3,116 (1925) | #4,278 |
| 1930s | 17 | #3,434 (1937) | #3,990 |
| 1940s | 219 | #1,327 (1948) | #2,399 |
| 1950s | 409 | #1,254 (1951) | #1,634 |
| 1960s | 441 | #1,231 (1968) | #1,826 |
| 1970s | 1,564 | #690 (1974) | #940 |
| 1980s | 4,785 | #203 (1989) | #591 |
| 1990s | 30,294 | #89 (1999) | #110 |
| 2000s | 48,114 | #39 (2006) | #61 |
| 2010s | 41,999 | #32 (2015) | #66 |
| 2020s | 3,654 | #230 (2020) | #608 |
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.
Alexa in 2003
Top girls' names in 2003
Top boys' names in 2003
More about 2003
girls
1,827,145 girls got a published name in 2003; 1 in 397 of them was named Alexa, which outranked 99.6% of the 18,439 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,975,349 boys got a published name in 2003; 1 in 329,225 of them was named Alexa, which outranked 24.9% of the 12,761 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #8,643Zyeir7
- #8,643Zyion7
- #8,643Zyshonne7
- #9,581Alexa6
- #9,581Aahil6
- #9,581Aaliyah6
- #9,581Abdalla6
- #10,894Aabid5
- #10,894Aadan5
- #10,894Aadith5
Tied with 1,312 names at #9,581; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.