Alexei

Last seen for girls in 2022 at #13,592 · #3,240 for boys in 2025, 36 births
Given to boys 92.1% of the time

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Peak · boys
#2,087
2000 · 48 births
Debut · boys
1961
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,369
since 1961

Alexei over time

girlsboys

Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201996peak #7,532, 1998peak #2,087, 2000girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025—#3,24036
2024—#2,75047
2023—#3,41634
2022#13,5926#2,83045
2021#15,2515#2,55251
2020—#2,88641
2019—#2,69447
2018—#3,10637
2017—#3,12337
2016—#3,29334
2015#14,4826#2,96639
2014—#3,15435
2013—#3,33932
2012—#4,00325
2011#16,7645#3,60529
2010#13,4487#3,12836
2009—#3,63929
2008#17,5045#2,94640
2007#15,4916#3,79327
2006—#2,93238
2005—#2,49345
2004#11,6248#2,95334
2003#15,7845#2,78035
2002#11,1088#2,75534
2001#15,3525#2,15148
2000#13,1546#2,08748
1999#11,3857#3,03127
1998#7,53212#2,45035
1997#9,0179#2,61330
1996#8,13210#3,10723
1995—#3,43219
1994—#2,84725
1993#10,5887#3,50118
1992—#3,45918
1991—#8,2365
1990—#8,1175
1989—#5,6158
1988—#4,16211
1987—#4,9688
1986—#4,8538
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1984—#4,2159
1983—#4,4998
1982—#3,28213
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1980—#4,1349
1979—#4,4038
1978—#3,40011
1977—#3,60610
1976—#5,5875
1975—#2,90213
1974—#4,1907
1973—#3,6948
1972—#4,9865
1971—#4,9075
1970—#2,89111
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1968—#2,31113
1967—#3,5596
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First appearance
1961

The first year at least five boys were named Alexei! It came in at #4,065, and was given to 5 baby boys.

Quietest stretch: 1961–1966, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Alexei
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 490 spots since 2024 (#2,750 → #3,240)
  • 354 spots since 2020 (#2,886 → #3,240)
  • 274 spots since 2015 (#2,966 → #3,240)
Rise & fade · boys
39 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1961
  • Peaked 2000 at #2,087 (48 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 34,304
  • Highest: 1 in 34,304 boys born in 2021 were named Alexei (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 47,447 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #2,087 in 2000, was only 1 in 40,917 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2000s
  • 27.6% of all boys named Alexei (378) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
  • The majority has never changed
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s24#2,311 (1968)#3,312
1970s83#2,891 (1970)#4,057
1980s74#3,282 (1982)#4,466
1990s205#2,450 (1998)#4,079
2000s378#2,087 (2000)#2,853
2010s351#2,694 (2019)#3,241
2020s254#2,552 (2021)#2,946

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Alexei in 1996

girls
#8,132
10 births · 1 in 175,301 girls
boys
#3,107
23 births · 1 in 82,361 boys

Top girls' names in 1996

  1. #1Emily25,150
  2. #2Jessica24,201
  3. #3Ashley23,678
  4. #4Sarah21,048
  5. #5Samantha20,552
  6. #6Taylor19,155
  7. #7Hannah18,596
  8. #8Alexis16,592
  9. #9Rachel16,121
  10. #10Elizabeth16,003
  11. #8,132Alexei10

Top boys' names in 1996

  1. #1Michael38,373
  2. #2Matthew32,077
  3. #3Jacob31,925
  4. #4Christopher30,904
  5. #5Joshua29,175
  6. #6Nicholas27,724
  7. #7Tyler26,956
  8. #8Brandon25,847
  9. #9Austin25,663
  10. #10Andrew25,244
  11. #3,107Alexei23
More about 1996

girls

1,753,007 girls got a published name in 1996; 1 in 175,301 of them was named Alexei, which outranked 48.8% of the 15,894 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Alexei
  1. #7,574Zania11
  2. #7,574Zariya11
  3. #7,574Zhana11
  4. #8,132Alexei10
  5. #8,132Aaliya10
  6. #8,132Aariel10
  7. #8,132Aarti10
  8. #8,812Aarion9
  9. #8,812Abagael9
  10. #8,812Adaisha9

Tied with 679 names at #8,132; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1995
Risers
  1. ↑ 2,167Odalys#2,845 → #678
  2. ↑ 1,531Tamia#2,028 → #497
  3. ↑ 1,524Jaycie#2,486 → #962
  4. ↑ 1,486Odalis#2,394 → #908
  5. ↑ 1,430Zaria#2,155 → #725
Fallers
  1. ↓ 1,558Unknown#865 → #2,423
  2. ↓ 723Iridian#886 → #1,609
  3. ↓ 435Selene#964 → #1,399
  4. ↓ 394Salina#838 → #1,232
  5. ↓ 339Chelsi#697 → #1,036

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

boys

1,894,300 boys got a published name in 1996; 1 in 82,361 of them was named Alexei, which outranked 70.5% of the 10,536 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Alexei
  1. #3,021Yair24
  2. #3,021Yancy24
  3. #3,021Young24
  4. #3,107Alexei23
  5. #3,107Ahron23
  6. #3,107Alistair23
  7. #3,107Andrae23
  8. #3,202Abdulaziz22
  9. #3,202Abiel22
  10. #3,202Alanmichael22

Tied with 94 names at #3,107; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1995
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,398Keyshawn#2,178 → #780
  2. ↑ 1,171Jair#2,055 → #884
  3. ↑ 1,065Kordell#2,055 → #990
  4. ↑ 856Shemar#1,758 → #902
  5. ↑ 686Nasir#1,648 → #962
Fallers
  1. ↓ 1,075Unknown#665 → #1,740
  2. ↓ 649Rashaan#937 → #1,586
  3. ↓ 633Savon#966 → #1,599
  4. ↓ 514Latrell#966 → #1,480
  5. ↓ 351Rakeem#970 → #1,321

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1996 →