Alexes

Last seen for girls in 2011 at #10,374 · Last seen for boys in 2009 at #8,985
Given to girls 83.4% of the time

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Peak · girls
1994 · 53 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
700
since 1976

Alexes over time

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201995peak #2,412, 1994peak #4,668, 1997girlsboys
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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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2011#10,37410
2010#10,45110
2009#11,4599#8,9858
2008#7,74216
2007#7,09218
2006#7,14217#5,78114
2005#5,80021#6,63411
2004#5,06225#6,52011
2003#3,47241#8,6437
2002#3,59537#9,3926
2001#4,20929#7,5368
2000#2,97447#5,04014
1999#2,78249#5,31712
1998#2,73149#8,4796
1997#2,59049#4,66813
1996#2,42353#6,4968
1995#2,88041#6,4078
1994#2,41253#6,3728
1993#4,10025#8,7005
1992#5,05119
1991#5,00419
1990#6,86712
1989#5,28616
1988#7,11110
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1984#8,1537
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First appearance
1976

The first year at least five girls were named Alexes! It came in at #8,156, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1977–1982, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

See more about Alexes
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2011
Rise & fade · girls
18 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1976
  • Peaked 1994 at #2,412 (53 births)
  • Births halved by 2004, 10 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 33,076
  • Highest: 1 in 33,076 girls born in 1996 were named Alexes (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 175,907 girls born in 2011 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #2,412 in 1994, was only 1 in 33,693 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1990s
  • 52.7% of all girls named Alexes (369) 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
1970s6#8,156 (1976)#8,156
1980s45#5,286 (1989)#7,774
1990s369#2,412 (1994)#3,684
2000s260#2,974 (2000)#5,855
2010s20#10,374 (2011)#10,413

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.

Alexes in 1995

girls
#2,880
41 births · 1 in 42,891 girls
boys
#6,407
8 births · 1 in 237,963 boys

Top girls' names in 1995

  1. #1Jessica27,941
  2. #2Ashley26,606
  3. #3Emily24,382
  4. #4Samantha21,644
  5. #5Sarah21,395
  6. #6Taylor20,426
  7. #7Hannah17,018
  8. #8Brittany16,477
  9. #9Amanda16,354
  10. #10Elizabeth16,192
  11. #2,880Alexes41

Top boys' names in 1995

  1. #1Michael41,409
  2. #2Matthew32,882
  3. #3Christopher32,679
  4. #4Jacob31,134
  5. #5Joshua30,720
  6. #6Tyler29,161
  7. #7Nicholas29,160
  8. #8Brandon26,904
  9. #9Daniel26,728
  10. #10Austin25,908
  11. #6,407Alexes8
More about 1995

girls

1,758,548 girls got a published name in 1995; 1 in 42,891 of them was named Alexes, which outranked 81.7% of the 15,753 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Alexes
  1. #2,845Tuesday42
  2. #2,845Vannesa42
  3. #2,845Zayna42
  4. #2,880Alexes41
  5. #2,880Asma41
  6. #2,880Bethani41
  7. #2,880Breaunna41
  8. #2,932Alanah40
  9. #2,932Alaya40
  10. #2,932Althea40

Tied with 51 names at #2,880; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1994
Risers
  1. 6,718Iridian#7,604#886
  2. 2,689Daija#3,615#926
  3. 2,119Lyric#2,752#633
  4. 1,910Daja#2,877#967
  5. 1,602Shania#2,047#445
Fallers
  1. 1,205Nohely#896#2,101
  2. 1,048Zana#802#1,850
  3. 869Kadijah#512#1,381
  4. 609Clarisa#664#1,273
  5. 514Dayana#751#1,265

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

boys

1,903,701 boys got a published name in 1995; 1 in 237,963 of them was named Alexes, which outranked 38.0% of the 10,330 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Alexes
  1. #5,928Zeferino9
  2. #5,928Zenon9
  3. #5,928Ziare9
  4. #6,407Alexes8
  5. #6,407Aaronjames8
  6. #6,407Abdel8
  7. #6,407Abrar8
  8. #6,992Abayomi7
  9. #6,992Abdullahi7
  10. #6,992Abu7

Tied with 584 names at #6,407; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1994
Risers
  1. 1,703Tristin#2,307#604
  2. 1,494Raekwon#2,082#588
  3. 1,357Tristian#2,219#862
  4. 1,269Triston#1,795#526
  5. 1,186Rashaan#2,123#937
Fallers
  1. 469Shyheim#817#1,286
  2. 335Ryne#897#1,232
  3. 251Daulton#792#1,043
  4. 247Demetri#886#1,133
  5. 242Jerrell#917#1,159

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

See the top 100 for 1995