Alexus

Where Alexus comes from

Alexus hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1971
    Alexus Grynkewich born
    U.S. Air Force general
  2. 1982
    First appearance
    #10,517 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1983
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  4. 1996
    Peak, #178
    1,703 babies named Alexus — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2003
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #370.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Alexus Grynkewich · U.S. Air Force general, born 1971

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.