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 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 23,013 of them was named Lexington, which outranked 87.2% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,385Sabine78
- #2,385Serene78
- #2,385Zaida78
- #2,412Lexington77
- #2,412Agatha77
- #2,412Alexi77
- #2,412Aly77
- #2,426Avyanna76
- #2,426Bowie76
- #2,426Brelynn76
Tied with 13 names at #2,412; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 41,255 of them was named Lexington, which outranked 81.3% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,626Treyton47
- #2,626Whitaker47
- #2,626Willard47
- #2,661Lexington46
- #2,661Amaan46
- #2,661Axyl46
- #2,661Baruch46
- #2,689Ahron45
- #2,689Banner45
- #2,689Brison45
Tied with 27 names at #2,661; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.