Aleix
Aleix was last recorded in 2022, when 5 babies were given it; 56 Americans have been recorded with it between 2015 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aleix by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Aleix mean?
Wiktionary, Catalan section
Aleix is “a male given name, equivalent to English Alexis” Its etymology gives the sense “helper, defender” (Ἀλέξιος).
Inherited from Latin Alexius, from Ancient Greek Ἀλέξιος (Aléxios, “helper, defender”).
[əˈle̞ʃ]
Meaning: Wiktionary, Catalan section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Aleix?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,432, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
12 babies in 2016, the peak
Aleix peaked in 2016, when 12 boys were given it, #6,733 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | #12,432 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 5 | #12,213 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 11 | #7,045 | 6.4 |
| 2019 | 7 | #9,800 | 3.9 |
| 2018 | 5 | #12,233 | 2.8 |
| 2017 | 5 | #12,329 | 2.7 |
| 2016 | 12 | #6,733 | 6.3 |
| 2015 | 6 | #10,706 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Aleix a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aleix has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 8 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aleix: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aleix, and how old are they?
An estimated 56 Americans named Aleix and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 296,914 babies since 1880, Aleix is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,586 babies recorded by SSA was a Aleix (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Aleix
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Aleix and names like it
- Compare Aleix and AlexBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAleix peaked in 2016.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aleix since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Aleix.
- Names starting with AMost given first.