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
- Peak · boys
- 2000 · 48 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,369since 1961
Alexei 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #3,240 | 36 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,750 | 47 | |
| 2023 | — | #3,416 | 34 | |
| 2022 | #13,592 | 6 | #2,830 | 45 |
| 2021 | #15,251 | 5 | #2,552 | 51 |
| 2020 | — | #2,886 | 41 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,694 | 47 | |
| 2018 | — | #3,106 | 37 | |
| 2017 | — | #3,123 | 37 | |
| 2016 | — | #3,293 | 34 | |
| 2015 | #14,482 | 6 | #2,966 | 39 |
| 2014 | — | #3,154 | 35 | |
| 2013 | — | #3,339 | 32 | |
| 2012 | — | #4,003 | 25 | |
| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 | #3,605 | 29 |
| 2010 | #13,448 | 7 | #3,128 | 36 |
| 2009 | — | #3,639 | 29 | |
| 2008 | #17,504 | 5 | #2,946 | 40 |
| 2007 | #15,491 | 6 | #3,793 | 27 |
| 2006 | — | #2,932 | 38 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,493 | 45 | |
| 2004 | #11,624 | 8 | #2,953 | 34 |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 | #2,780 | 35 |
| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 | #2,755 | 34 |
| 2001 | #15,352 | 5 | #2,151 | 48 |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 | #2,087 | 48 |
| 1999 | #11,385 | 7 | #3,031 | 27 |
| 1998 | #7,532 | 12 | #2,450 | 35 |
| 1997 | #9,017 | 9 | #2,613 | 30 |
| 1996 | #8,132 | 10 | #3,107 | 23 |
| 1995 | — | #3,432 | 19 | |
| 1994 | — | #2,847 | 25 | |
| 1993 | #10,588 | 7 | #3,501 | 18 |
| 1992 | — | #3,459 | 18 | |
| 1991 | — | #8,236 | 5 | |
| 1990 | — | #8,117 | 5 | |
| 1989 | — | #5,615 | 8 | |
| 1988 | — | #4,162 | 11 | |
| 1987 | — | #4,968 | 8 | |
| 1986 | — | #4,853 | 8 | |
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| 1984 | — | #4,215 | 9 | |
| 1983 | — | #4,499 | 8 | |
| 1982 | — | #3,282 | 13 | |
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| 1980 | — | #4,134 | 9 | |
| 1979 | — | #4,403 | 8 | |
| 1978 | — | #3,400 | 11 | |
| 1977 | — | #3,606 | 10 | |
| 1976 | — | #5,587 | 5 | |
| 1975 | — | #2,902 | 13 | |
| 1974 | — | #4,190 | 7 | |
| 1973 | — | #3,694 | 8 | |
| 1972 | — | #4,986 | 5 | |
| 1971 | — | #4,907 | 5 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,891 | 11 | |
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| 1968 | — | #2,311 | 13 | |
| 1967 | — | #3,559 | 6 | |
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| 1961 | — | #4,065 | 5 | |
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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
- 490 spots since 2024 (#2,750 → #3,240)
- 354 spots since 2020 (#2,886 → #3,240)
- 274 spots since 2015 (#2,966 → #3,240)
- Debuted 1961
- Peaked 2000 at #2,087 (48 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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
- 27.6% of all boys named Alexei (378) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 24 | #2,311 (1968) | #3,312 |
| 1970s | 83 | #2,891 (1970) | #4,057 |
| 1980s | 74 | #3,282 (1982) | #4,466 |
| 1990s | 205 | #2,450 (1998) | #4,079 |
| 2000s | 378 | #2,087 (2000) | #2,853 |
| 2010s | 351 | #2,694 (2019) | #3,241 |
| 2020s | 254 | #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 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 193,412 of them was named Alexei, which outranked 44.2% 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).
- #8,334Zarriah10
- #8,334Zerina10
- #8,334Zeynep10
- #9,017Alexei9
- #9,017Aaminah9
- #9,017Aarica9
- #9,017Abagael9
- #9,802Aaliayah8
- #9,802Aamina8
- #9,802Aaren8
Tied with 784 names at #9,017; 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 62,838 of them was named Alexei, which outranked 75.8% 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).
- #2,546Tyger31
- #2,546Weldon31
- #2,546Yanni31
- #2,613Alexei30
- #2,613Abhishek30
- #2,613Adriano30
- #2,613Ameen30
- #2,680Andrey29
- #2,680Argenis29
- #2,680Aris29
Tied with 66 names at #2,613; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.