Alexes
Alexes was last recorded in 2011, when 10 babies were given it; 839 Americans have been recorded with it between 1976 and 2011 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alexes by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Alexes mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Alexes is “a female given name”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Alexes?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,417, in 2011; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
62 babies in 1997, the peak
Alexes peaked in 1997, when 62 babies were given it (49 girls, #2,589 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 10 | #10,417 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,479 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,495 | 8 | #9,015 |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,750 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,101 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,159 | 14 | #5,793 |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,807 | 11 | #6,645 |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,063 | 11 | #6,533 |
| 2003 | 41 | #3,471 | 7 | #8,677 |
| 2002 | 37 | #3,593 | 6 | #9,426 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 29 | #4,209 | 8 | #7,544 |
| 2000 | 47 | #2,972 | 14 | #5,044 |
| 1999 | 49 | #2,780 | 12 | #5,321 |
| 1998 | 49 | #2,730 | 6 | #8,495 |
| 1997 | 49 | #2,589 | 13 | #4,671 |
| 1996 | 53 | #2,420 | 8 | #6,507 |
| 1995 | 41 | #2,875 | 8 | #6,422 |
| 1994 | 53 | #2,408 | 8 | #6,386 |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,097 | 5 | #8,724 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,055 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,002 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 12 | #6,876 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,289 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,119 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,329 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,172 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,035 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,178 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Alexes a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 839 Americans recorded as Alexes, 83% are girls and 17% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Alexes: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alexes, and how old are they?
An estimated 825 Americans named Alexes and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 23 and 31. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 920 people named Alexes (697 women and girls, 223 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 828 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% above 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 441,984 babies since 1880, Alexes is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,146 babies recorded by SSA was a Alexes (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 Alexes
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 Alexes and names like it
- Compare Alexes and AlexisBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sAlexes peaked in 1997.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alexes since 1910.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Alexes.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Alexes alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.