Alexa
Alexa was given to 243 girls in 2025, #1,029 among girls’ names; 131,835 Americans have been recorded with it since 1916 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 130,000 Americans named Alexa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 14 and 28.
Alexa dropped 223 places in 2025, the #7 drop among the girls’ top 1,000 of 2024.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alexa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Alexa mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Alexa is “a female given name from Ancient Greek.”
From Alex + -a. A feminine form of Alex.
A female given name, clipping of Alexandra.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Alexa?
#1,029 among girls’ names, 2025
Alexa fell from #32 in 2015 to #1,029 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 3.4 to 0.15 per 1,000.
6,125 babies in 2006, the peak
Alexa peaked in 2006, when 6,125 babies were given it (6,117 girls, #39 among girls’ names). The 243 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 243 | #1,029 | 0.15 |
| 2024 | 349 | #806 | 0.22 |
| 2023 | 492 | #606 | 0.31 |
| 2022 | 577 | #535 | 0.35 |
| 2021 | 708 | #440 | 0.43 |
| 2020 | 1,285 | #230 | 0.79 |
| 2019 | 2,002 | #139 | 1.2 |
| 2018 | 3,068 | #90 | 1.8 |
| 2017 | 3,896 | #66 | 2.3 |
| 2016 | 4,775 | #51 | 2.7 |
Every recorded year (97)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6,053 | #32 | 3.4 |
| 2014 | 4,249 | #64 | 2.4 |
| 2013 | 4,106 | #60 | 2.3 |
| 2012 | 4,297 | #57 | 2.4 |
| 2011 | 4,510 | #55 | 2.6 |
| 2010 | 5,043 | #50 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 5,311 | #43 | 2.9 |
| 2008 | 5,226 | #50 | 2.8 |
| 2007 | 5,785 | #40 | 3.0 |
| 2006 | 6,117 | #39 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 4,664 | #66 | 2.5 |
| 2004 | 4,440 | #72 | 2.4 |
| 2003 | 4,598 | #67 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 4,401 | #69 | 2.4 |
| 2001 | 3,898 | #78 | 2.2 |
| 2000 | 3,674 | #87 | 2.0 |
| 1999 | 3,644 | #89 | 2.1 |
| 1998 | 3,622 | #93 | 2.0 |
| 1997 | 3,090 | #106 | 1.8 |
| 1996 | 3,260 | #100 | 1.9 |
| 1995 | 3,359 | #100 | 1.9 |
| 1994 | 3,441 | #95 | 1.9 |
| 1993 | 3,037 | #107 | 1.7 |
| 1992 | 2,234 | #140 | 1.2 |
| 1991 | 2,476 | #127 | 1.3 |
| 1990 | 2,131 | #146 | 1.1 |
| 1989 | 1,305 | #203 | 0.71 |
| 1988 | 918 | #273 | 0.52 |
| 1987 | 821 | #294 | 0.47 |
| 1986 | 498 | #432 | 0.29 |
| 1985 | 200 | #816 | 0.12 |
| 1984 | 208 | #775 | 0.12 |
| 1983 | 219 | #745 | 0.13 |
| 1982 | 215 | #767 | 0.13 |
| 1981 | 222 | #743 | 0.13 |
| 1980 | 179 | #859 | 0.11 |
| 1979 | 176 | #875 | 0.11 |
| 1978 | 175 | #846 | 0.11 |
| 1977 | 189 | #792 | 0.12 |
| 1976 | 202 | #723 | 0.14 |
| 1975 | 211 | #702 | 0.14 |
| 1974 | 213 | #690 | 0.15 |
| 1973 | 152 | #847 | 0.10 |
| 1972 | 92 | #1,169 | 0.06 |
| 1971 | 68 | #1,489 | 0.04 |
| 1970 | 86 | #1,270 | 0.05 |
| 1969 | 75 | #1,304 | 0.04 |
| 1968 | 79 | #1,231 | 0.05 |
| 1967 | 46 | #1,682 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 32 | #2,057 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 28 | #2,248 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 30 | #2,196 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 34 | #2,016 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 47 | #1,650 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 36 | #1,920 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 34 | #1,952 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 26 | #2,234 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 39 | #1,732 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 53 | #1,457 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 33 | #1,870 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 41 | #1,596 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 33 | #1,800 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 39 | #1,564 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 52 | #1,332 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 55 | #1,253 | 0.03 |
| 1950 | 38 | #1,494 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 45 | #1,375 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 48 | #1,327 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 46 | #1,357 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 24 | #1,859 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 20 | #1,874 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 16 | #2,199 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,202 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,446 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,959 | under 0.01 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,438 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,213 | under 0.01 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,340 | under 0.01 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,749 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,300 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,312 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,118 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,083 | under 0.01 |
| 1923 | 5 | #4,978 | under 0.01 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,472 | under 0.01 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,604 | under 0.01 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,428 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Alexa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alexa has been given almost only to girls: 284 boys in 97 years of records.
Girls and boys named Alexa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alexa, and how old are they?
130,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 131,835 Americans ever recorded as Alexa. The median Alexa alive today is 20 years old; half are between 14 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 115,935 people named Alexa (115,621 women and girls, 314 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 127,025 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 34 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 581 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,880 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 24,100 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 71,700 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 31,600 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Alexa born?
The states with the most babies named Alexa are Texas, California and Florida, with 58% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 46 | #663 | 1.2× |
| California | 42 | #733 | 1.3× |
| Florida | 22 | #736 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 14 | #670 | 1.0× |
| New York | 8 | #1,534 | 1.3× |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,141 | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 7 | #967 | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 7 | #895 | 0.4× |
| Maryland | 6 | #735 | 0.7× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,177 | 1.6× |
Where Alexa is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Alexa is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1916 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Alexa with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 188,446 babies since 1880, Alexa is the most given (70% of them). In 2025 it was given to 243 of their 540 babies (45%), again the most given.
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 Alexa
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 Alexa and names like it
- Compare Alexa and AlexiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAlexa peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alexa since 1910.
- Ancient Greek namesWiktionary’s origin for Alexa: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Alexa.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Alexa alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.