Alexei
Alexei was given to 36 boys in 2025, #3,244 among boys’ names; 1,486 Americans have been recorded with it since 1961 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,450 Americans named Alexei and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 9 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alexei by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Alexei mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Alexei is “a transliteration of the Russian male given name Алексе́й (Alekséj), equivalent to Alexius.”
/əˈlɛkseɪ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Alexei?
#3,244 among boys’ names, 2025
Alexei fell from #2,967 in 2015 to #3,244 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 20.3 to 21.1 per million.
56 babies in 2021, the peak
Alexei peaked in 2021, when 56 babies were given it (51 boys, #2,551 among boys’ names). The 36 births of 2025 are 64% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36 | #3,244 | 21.1 |
| 2024 | 47 | #2,752 | 27.3 |
| 2023 | 34 | #3,417 | 19.9 |
| 2022 | 45 | #2,830 | 25.8 |
| 2021 | 51 | #2,551 | 29.2 |
| 2020 | 41 | #2,886 | 23.8 |
| 2019 | 47 | #2,695 | 26.2 |
| 2018 | 37 | #3,105 | 20.4 |
| 2017 | 37 | #3,126 | 20.0 |
| 2016 | 34 | #3,295 | 17.9 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 39 | #2,967 | 20.3 |
| 2014 | 35 | #3,153 | 18.2 |
| 2013 | 32 | #3,339 | 16.9 |
| 2012 | 25 | #4,003 | 13.2 |
| 2011 | 29 | #3,608 | 15.3 |
| 2010 | 36 | #3,128 | 18.8 |
| 2009 | 29 | #3,641 | 14.6 |
| 2008 | 40 | #2,950 | 19.6 |
| 2007 | 27 | #3,795 | 13.0 |
| 2006 | 38 | #2,933 | 18.5 |
| 2005 | 45 | #2,492 | 22.5 |
| 2004 | 34 | #2,951 | 17.1 |
| 2003 | 35 | #2,780 | 17.7 |
| 2002 | 34 | #2,751 | 17.5 |
| 2001 | 48 | #2,147 | 24.7 |
| 2000 | 48 | #2,083 | 24.4 |
| 1999 | 27 | #3,029 | 14.1 |
| 1998 | 35 | #2,450 | 18.3 |
| 1997 | 30 | #2,611 | 15.9 |
| 1996 | 23 | #3,103 | 12.1 |
| 1995 | 19 | #3,427 | 10.0 |
| 1994 | 25 | #2,846 | 12.9 |
| 1993 | 18 | #3,498 | 9.2 |
| 1992 | 18 | #3,454 | 9.0 |
| 1991 | 5 | #8,253 | 2.5 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,138 | 2.4 |
| 1989 | 8 | #5,630 | 4.0 |
| 1988 | 11 | #4,164 | 5.7 |
| 1987 | 8 | #4,972 | 4.3 |
| 1986 | 8 | #4,857 | 4.3 |
| 1984 | 9 | #4,219 | 5.0 |
| 1983 | 8 | #4,508 | 4.5 |
| 1982 | 13 | #3,287 | 7.2 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,147 | 5.0 |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,418 | 4.6 |
| 1978 | 11 | #3,401 | 6.7 |
| 1977 | 10 | #3,612 | 6.1 |
| 1976 | 5 | #5,606 | 3.2 |
| 1975 | 13 | #2,903 | 8.3 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,197 | 4.5 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,700 | 5.1 |
| 1972 | 5 | #4,998 | 3.1 |
| 1971 | 5 | #4,925 | 2.8 |
| 1970 | 11 | #2,891 | 5.9 |
| 1968 | 13 | #2,311 | 7.5 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,566 | 3.4 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,072 | 2.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Alexei a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,486 Americans recorded as Alexei, 8% are girls and 92% boys. In 2025 it went to 36 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Alexei: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alexei, and how old are they?
1,450 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,486 Americans ever recorded as Alexei. The median Alexei alive today is 19 years old; half are between 9 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 2,821 people named Alexei (153 women and girls, 2,668 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,207 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 99 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 187 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 633 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 528 |
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 Alexei born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 6 | #2,217 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 5 | #2,590 | 0.5× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ 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 Alexei 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,316 babies since 1880, Alexei is the most given (64% of them). In 2025 it was given to 36 of their 47 babies (77%), 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 Alexei
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 Alexei and names like it
- Compare Alexei and AlexeyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAlexei peaked in 2021.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alexei since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Alexei.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Alexei alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.