Alexas — girls' name
787 babies named Alexas in U.S. Social Security records since 1974, with the highest year being 2001. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
46% of everyone ever named Alexas was born in this single decade.
55 babies were named Alexas in 2001 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Alexas
The Social Security Administration has registered 787 babies named Alexas between 1974 and 2013, spanning 40 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Alexas currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2013. The name reached its historical peak in 2001, when 55 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Alexas performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 359 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Alexas shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 60 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Alexas in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Alexas in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 787 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Alexas at a glance
Last recorded 2013Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Alexas popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2013–1974
- Peak year (2001)
- 55
- Annual births at peak — across 40 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2013.
787 total births across 40 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2001 with 55 births in a single year.
Alexas by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 359 births that decade — 46% of Alexas's all-time total
Alexas decade highlights
- Peak decade 359 births
- Runner-up 358 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Alexas's strongest decade
359 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 46% of all-time use.
Alexas by state
Where Alexas concentrates geographically — total births since 1974
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 60 | 7.6% |
| #2 | California | | 16 | 2.0% |
| #3 | Georgia | | 7 | 0.9% |
| #4 | Florida | | 5 | 0.6% |
| #5 | Oklahoma | | 5 | 0.6% |
60 of 787 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 5 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Texas 7.6% of nationwide
- California 2.0% of nationwide
- Georgia 0.9% of nationwide
- Florida 0.6% of nationwide
- Oklahoma 0.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 5 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 7.6% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1974–2013 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.