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
- 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
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 | #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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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.
See more about Lexington
- 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)
- Debuted 1989
- Peaked 2014 at #2,256 (83 births)
- Births halved by 2023, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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%)
- 52.2% of all girls named Lexington (686) were born in this decade
- 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.
Lexington in 2014
Top girls' names in 2014
Top boys' names in 2014
More about 2014
girls
1,786,355 girls got a published name in 2014; 1 in 21,522 of them was named Lexington, which outranked 88.3% of the 19,232 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,236Paulette84
- #2,236Skyy84
- #2,236Zella84
- #2,256Lexington83
- #2,256Brandi83
- #2,256Evalina83
- #2,256Ines83
- #2,267Adison82
- #2,267Ahana82
- #2,267Amiracle82
Tied with 10 names at #2,256; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 3,632Aranza#4,243 → #611
- ↑ 576Montserrat#1,148 → #572
- ↑ 573Monserrat#1,165 → #592
- ↑ 463Maisie#1,116 → #653
- ↑ 419Ariadne#1,220 → #801
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,920,871 boys got a published name in 2014; 1 in 43,656 of them was named Lexington, which outranked 80.8% of the 14,081 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,661Tavon45
- #2,661Tejas45
- #2,661Xzander45
- #2,705Lexington44
- #2,705Abubakar44
- #2,705Ahaan44
- #2,705Amaan44
- #2,754Abriel43
- #2,754Adian43
- #2,754Akram43
Tied with 48 names at #2,705; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.