Lexington
#7,491 for girls in 2025, 14 births · #5,608 for boys in 2025, 16 births
Given to girls 56.1% of the time
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- Peak · girls
- 2014 · 83 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,313since 1989
Lexington over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,491 | 14 | #5,608 | 16 |
| 2024 | #4,669 | 29 | #3,524 | 32 |
| 2023 | #4,114 | 35 | #3,055 | 40 |
| 2022 | #3,416 | 46 | #2,589 | 52 |
| 2021 | #3,157 | 51 | #2,000 | 74 |
| 2020 | #2,823 | 58 | #1,694 | 92 |
| 2019 | #2,508 | 70 | #1,899 | 78 |
| 2018 | #2,404 | 75 | #1,901 | 78 |
| 2017 | #2,432 | 74 | #2,891 | 41 |
| 2016 | #2,412 | 77 | #2,661 | 46 |
| 2015 | #2,294 | 81 | #3,149 | 36 |
| 2014 | #2,256 | 83 | #2,705 | 44 |
| 2013 | #2,385 | 76 | #3,497 | 30 |
| 2012 | #3,314 | 49 | #3,714 | 28 |
| 2011 | #3,173 | 52 | #4,221 | 23 |
| 2010 | #3,306 | 49 | #3,708 | 28 |
| 2009 | #3,944 | 39 | #3,045 | 38 |
| 2008 | #6,350 | 21 | #3,823 | 27 |
| 2007 | #6,812 | 19 | #4,996 | 18 |
| 2006 | #4,685 | 30 | #5,072 | 17 |
| 2005 | #6,245 | 19 | #4,326 | 20 |
| 2004 | #4,492 | 30 | #5,246 | 15 |
| 2003 | #5,092 | 24 | #4,815 | 16 |
| 2002 | #3,523 | 38 | #5,725 | 12 |
| 2001 | #4,834 | 24 | #5,390 | 13 |
| 2000 | #4,791 | 24 | #5,920 | 11 |
| 1999 | #5,661 | 18 | #6,530 | 9 |
| 1998 | #5,123 | 20 | #5,159 | 12 |
| 1997 | #4,819 | 21 | #5,288 | 11 |
| 1996 | #5,065 | 19 | #7,971 | 6 |
| 1995 | #7,514 | 11 | #5,928 | 9 |
| 1994 | #10,569 | 7 | #5,868 | 9 |
| 1993 | #8,052 | 10 | #6,228 | 8 |
| 1992 | #9,491 | 8 | #5,236 | 10 |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | — | |
| 1990 | — | #7,178 | 6 | |
| 1989 | #9,681 | 7 | #5,615 | 8 |
| 1988 | — | #4,786 | 9 | |
| 1987 | — | #6,951 | 5 | |
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First appearance
1989
The first year at least five girls were named Lexington! It came in at #9,681, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1990–1991, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
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Momentum · girls
Falling
- 2,822 spots since 2024 (#4,669 → #7,491)
- 4,668 spots since 2020 (#2,823 → #7,491)
- 5,197 spots since 2015 (#2,294 → #7,491)
Rise & fade · girls
25 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1989
- Peaked 2014 at #2,256 (83 births)
- Births halved by 2023, 9 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 21,522
- Highest: 1 in 21,522 girls born in 2014 were named Lexington (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 114,805 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
- 52.2% of all girls named Lexington (686) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2018
- Mostly girls until 2017, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 7 | #9,681 (1989) | #9,681 |
| 1990s | 119 | #4,819 (1997) | #7,716 |
| 2000s | 268 | #3,523 (2002) | #5,077 |
| 2010s | 686 | #2,256 (2014) | #2,648 |
| 2020s | 233 | #2,823 (2020) | #4,278 |
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.
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