Alexus

#9,457 for girls in 2025, 10 births · Last seen for boys in 2016 at #10,744
Given to girls 98.7% of the time

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Peak · girls
1996 · 1,703 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
18,632
since 1982

Alexus over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Alexus has never cracked the top 100 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201998peak #178, 1996girls
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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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rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#9,45710
2024#5,79921
2023#7,64014
2022#5,17225
2021#6,41418
2020#4,88026
2019#4,34332
2018#3,73940
2017#3,09152
2016#3,01055#10,7446
2015#2,20985
2014#1,818112
2013#1,496148
2012#1,315179#12,2745
2011#1,311179
2010#976261#12,2315
2009#887309
2008#715416
2007#627476#8,1739
2006#548538#9,5857
2005#528547#7,6409
2004#425713#4,79317
2003#370814#8,6437
2002#317969#5,72512
2001#2801,121#6,44510
2000#2521,281#5,04014
1999#2281,403#4,34116
1998#1841,654#3,48621
1997#1831,674#4,45114
1996#1781,703#3,83017
1995#2341,213#5,50110
1994#2501,111#3,91116
1993#354726#3,36819
1992#617367#5,6609
1991#952199#5,5219
1990#1,81379
1989#6,16013
1988#6,27712
1987#7,3539
1986#9,5456
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1983#9,0156
1982#10,5175#5,6196
1981#6,2625
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First appearance
1982

The first year at least five girls were named Alexus! It came in at #10,517, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1985, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

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Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 3,658 spots since 2024 (#5,799#9,457)
  • 4,577 spots since 2020 (#4,880#9,457)
  • 7,248 spots since 2015 (#2,209#9,457)
  • Biggest jump: 861 spots in 1991 (#1,813#952)
  • Biggest drop: 335 spots in 2011 (#976#1,311)
Rise & fade · girls
14 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1982
  • Peaked 1996 at #178 (1,703 births)
  • Births halved by 2003, 7 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 20 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 20 yrs · run 1991–2010
Share of babies · girls
1 in 1,029
  • Highest: 1 in 1,029 girls born in 1996 were named Alexus (0.10%)
  • Latest: 1 in 160,727 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1990s
  • 54.4% of all girls named Alexus (10,129) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s62#5,899 (1984)#7,824
1990s10,129#178 (1996)#499
2000s7,184#252 (2000)#495
2010s1,143#976 (2010)#2,331
2020s114#4,880 (2020)#6,560

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.

Alexus in 1998

girls
#184
1,654 births · 1 in 1,068 girls
boys
#3,486
21 births · 1 in 91,017 boys

Top girls' names in 1998

  1. #1Emily26,188
  2. #2Hannah21,376
  3. #3Samantha20,195
  4. #4Sarah19,898
  5. #5Ashley19,875
  6. #6Alexis19,778
  7. #7Taylor18,576
  8. #8Jessica18,239
  9. #9Madison17,787
  10. #10Elizabeth15,193
  11. #184Alexus1,654

Top boys' names in 1998

  1. #1Michael36,618
  2. #2Jacob36,031
  3. #3Matthew31,146
  4. #4Joshua28,095
  5. #5Christopher27,007
  6. #6Nicholas26,632
  7. #7Brandon23,832
  8. #8Tyler23,712
  9. #9Andrew23,664
  10. #10Austin23,478
  11. #3,486Alexus21
More about 1998

girls

1,766,949 girls got a published name in 1998; 1 in 1,068 of them was named Alexus, which outranked 98.9% of the 16,601 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Alexus
  1. #181Cierra1,687
  2. #182April1,662
  3. #183Kennedy1,658
  4. #184Alexus1,654
  5. #185Raven1,653
  6. #186Allyson1,651
  7. #187Kendall1,645
Biggest movers since 1997
Risers
  1. 2,123Calista#2,820#697
  2. 1,165Ireland#1,983#818
  3. 1,158Abril#2,116#958
  4. 755Mya#993#238
  5. 619Ally#1,036#417
Fallers
  1. 586Yulissa#424#1,010
  2. 462Moesha#943#1,405
  3. 397Yulisa#985#1,382
  4. 376Tonya#905#1,281
  5. 347Xena#765#1,112

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

boys

1,911,366 boys got a published name in 1998; 1 in 91,017 of them was named Alexus, which outranked 69.2% of the 11,311 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Alexus
  1. #3,390Virgilio22
  2. #3,390Young22
  3. #3,390Zuri22
  4. #3,486Alexus21
  5. #3,486Adrean21
  6. #3,486Adrion21
  7. #3,486Ahmaad21
  8. #3,597Abdulla20
  9. #3,597Alpha20
  10. #3,597Ankur20

Tied with 110 names at #3,486; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1997
Risers
  1. 1,736Tyrese#2,347#611
  2. 805Zion#1,499#694
  3. 785Mekhi#1,706#921
  4. 743Tyriq#1,519#776
  5. 741Tavian#1,599#858
Fallers
  1. 429Coty#918#1,347
  2. 367Anfernee#838#1,205
  3. 326Jessy#962#1,288
  4. 295Mickey#966#1,261
  5. 280Mikal#1,000#1,280

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

See the top 100 for 1998