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.
Where Alyx is popular in 1994
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- California#2,520 · 1 in 34,643
Best ever in a state: #423 in Iowa, 1995.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | #2,520 | 7 | 1 in 34,643 |
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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 1994
Top girls' names in 1994
Top boys' names in 1994
More about 1994
girls
1,785,753 girls got a published name in 1994; 1 in 39,683 of them was named Alyx, which outranked 82.9% of the 15,759 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,661Teresita46
- #2,661Torrey46
- #2,661Yoana46
- #2,701Alyx45
- #2,701Abbigale45
- #2,701Aleksandra45
- #2,701Amal45
- #2,752Abbi44
- #2,752Adriane44
- #2,752Alexas44
Tied with 50 names at #2,701; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,932,031 boys got a published name in 1994; 1 in 214,670 of them was named Alyx, which outranked 42.7% of the 10,245 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #5,452Zedekiah10
- #5,452Zen10
- #5,452Zohaib10
- #5,868Alyx9
- #5,868Aaran9
- #5,868Aarin9
- #5,868Abanoub9
- #6,372Abad8
- #6,372Abdel8
- #6,372Abdoul8
Tied with 503 names at #5,868; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.