Alyx
#10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births · #12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
Given to girls 87.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1993 · 78 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,295since 1978
Alyx 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,917 | 8 | #12,008 | 5 |
| 2024 | #7,594 | 14 | #10,938 | 6 |
| 2023 | #7,640 | 14 | — | |
| 2022 | #6,707 | 17 | #8,990 | 8 |
| 2021 | #5,573 | 22 | #12,146 | 5 |
| 2020 | #4,358 | 31 | #7,034 | 11 |
| 2019 | #5,306 | 24 | #8,889 | 8 |
| 2018 | #4,768 | 28 | #9,670 | 7 |
| 2017 | #5,821 | 21 | #10,775 | 6 |
| 2016 | #5,622 | 23 | — | |
| 2015 | #4,853 | 28 | — | |
| 2014 | #5,797 | 22 | #10,717 | 6 |
| 2013 | #5,644 | 23 | — | |
| 2012 | #5,398 | 25 | #10,770 | 6 |
| 2011 | #4,681 | 30 | — | |
| 2010 | #4,974 | 28 | #12,231 | 5 |
| 2009 | #4,196 | 36 | — | |
| 2008 | #4,882 | 30 | #9,019 | 8 |
| 2007 | #4,675 | 31 | #8,915 | 8 |
| 2006 | #3,992 | 37 | #12,055 | 5 |
| 2005 | #5,113 | 25 | #11,472 | 5 |
| 2004 | #4,816 | 27 | #6,976 | 10 |
| 2003 | #4,943 | 25 | — | |
| 2002 | #4,280 | 29 | — | |
| 2001 | #3,940 | 32 | #6,445 | 10 |
| 2000 | #3,983 | 31 | #9,112 | 6 |
| 1999 | #3,569 | 34 | — | |
| 1998 | #3,068 | 41 | #7,560 | 7 |
| 1997 | #2,481 | 52 | #6,100 | 9 |
| 1996 | #2,372 | 55 | #6,496 | 8 |
| 1995 | #2,101 | 64 | #6,407 | 8 |
| 1994 | #2,701 | 45 | #5,868 | 9 |
| 1993 | #1,841 | 78 | #7,638 | 6 |
| 1992 | #2,687 | 45 | #8,435 | 5 |
| 1991 | #2,519 | 49 | — | |
| 1990 | #3,297 | 33 | — | |
| 1989 | #3,253 | 32 | #7,905 | 5 |
| 1988 | #3,306 | 29 | — | |
| 1987 | #3,857 | 22 | — | |
| 1986 | #4,724 | 16 | — | |
| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 | — | |
| 1984 | #6,291 | 10 | — | |
| 1983 | #9,015 | 6 | — | |
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 | — | |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 | — | |
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| 1978 | #7,649 | 7 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Alyx! It came in at #7,649, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1979–1982, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Alyx
- 3,323 spots since 2024 (#7,594 → #10,917)
- 6,559 spots since 2020 (#4,358 → #10,917)
- 6,064 spots since 2015 (#4,853 → #10,917)
- Debuted 1978
- Peaked 1993 at #1,841 (78 births)
- Births halved by 1999, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 23,193 girls born in 1993 were named Alyx (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 200,908 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 38.3% of all girls named Alyx (496) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 7 | #7,649 (1978) | #7,649 |
| 1980s | 131 | #3,253 (1989) | #6,742 |
| 1990s | 496 | #1,841 (1993) | #2,664 |
| 2000s | 303 | #3,940 (2001) | #4,482 |
| 2010s | 252 | #4,681 (2011) | #5,286 |
| 2020s | 106 | #4,358 (2020) | #7,132 |
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.
Alyx in 1989
Top girls' names in 1989
Top boys' names in 1989
More about 1989
girls
1,843,552 girls got a published name in 1989; 1 in 57,611 of them was named Alyx, which outranked 77.6% of the 14,550 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,165Verenice33
- #3,165Zaneta33
- #3,165Zenobia33
- #3,253Alyx32
- #3,253Alejandro32
- #3,253Allisa32
- #3,253Allyn32
- #3,330Alida31
- #3,330Atiya31
- #3,330Aura31
Tied with 76 names at #3,253; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,000,928 boys got a published name in 1989; 1 in 400,186 of them was named Alyx, which outranked 14.4% of the 9,232 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,327 names at #7,905; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.