Alexi
Alexi is given to both girls and boys: 23 girls and 18 boys were given it in 2025 (#5,418 among girls’ names and #5,212 among boys’, #6,415 among all names counting both); 5,976 Americans have been recorded with it since 1965 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,860 Americans named Alexi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 16 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alexi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Alexi?
#5,418 among girls’ names, 2025
Alexi fell from #2,383 in 2015 to #5,418 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 43.1 to 14.3 per million.
236 babies in 1998, the peak
Alexi peaked in 1998, when 236 babies were given it (185 girls, #1,058 among girls’ names). The 41 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 17% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #5,418 | 18 | #5,212 |
| 2024 | 26 | #5,022 | 21 | #4,706 |
| 2023 | 36 | #4,047 | 40 | #3,055 |
| 2022 | 34 | #4,205 | 31 | #3,617 |
| 2021 | 47 | #3,341 | 29 | #3,737 |
| 2020 | 32 | #4,266 | 22 | #4,426 |
| 2019 | 43 | #3,553 | 34 | #3,346 |
| 2018 | 43 | #3,565 | 23 | #4,356 |
| 2017 | 50 | #3,193 | 23 | #4,327 |
| 2016 | 77 | #2,413 | 25 | #4,102 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 77 | #2,383 | 29 | #3,688 |
| 2014 | 68 | #2,582 | 30 | #3,532 |
| 2013 | 71 | #2,508 | 35 | #3,125 |
| 2012 | 91 | #2,096 | 37 | #3,058 |
| 2011 | 126 | #1,673 | 41 | #2,853 |
| 2010 | 156 | #1,450 | 44 | #2,730 |
| 2009 | 123 | #1,769 | 45 | #2,703 |
| 2008 | 145 | #1,573 | 73 | #1,948 |
| 2007 | 140 | #1,598 | 56 | #2,306 |
| 2006 | 151 | #1,468 | 54 | #2,309 |
| 2005 | 140 | #1,494 | 54 | #2,203 |
| 2004 | 134 | #1,497 | 65 | #1,876 |
| 2003 | 173 | #1,224 | 42 | #2,469 |
| 2002 | 196 | #1,083 | 40 | #2,469 |
| 2001 | 165 | #1,224 | 50 | #2,082 |
| 2000 | 164 | #1,208 | 50 | #2,012 |
| 1999 | 186 | #1,075 | 37 | #2,400 |
| 1998 | 185 | #1,058 | 51 | #1,896 |
| 1997 | 140 | #1,263 | 59 | #1,669 |
| 1996 | 150 | #1,199 | 45 | #1,954 |
| 1995 | 135 | #1,251 | 43 | #1,950 |
| 1994 | 148 | #1,188 | 42 | #1,974 |
| 1993 | 110 | #1,449 | 30 | #2,449 |
| 1992 | 85 | #1,737 | 42 | #1,910 |
| 1991 | 108 | #1,459 | 29 | #2,401 |
| 1990 | 94 | #1,590 | 27 | #2,484 |
| 1989 | 53 | #2,245 | 22 | #2,780 |
| 1988 | 66 | #1,859 | 15 | #3,349 |
| 1987 | 39 | #2,570 | 21 | #2,558 |
| 1986 | 30 | #3,053 | 18 | #2,779 |
| 1985 | 24 | #3,517 | 22 | #2,357 |
| 1984 | 22 | #3,613 | 23 | #2,233 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,721 | 18 | #2,579 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,211 | 22 | #2,268 |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,749 | 18 | #2,569 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,549 | 13 | #3,259 |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,627 | 20 | #2,378 |
| 1978 | under 5 | 16 | #2,668 | |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,353 | 12 | #3,204 |
| 1976 | under 5 | 16 | #2,603 | |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,497 | 13 | #2,904 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,368 | 11 | #3,122 |
| 1973 | under 5 | 17 | #2,310 | |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,306 | 8 | #3,627 |
| 1971 | under 5 | 6 | #4,383 | |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,376 | 6 | #4,239 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,487 | 5 | #4,417 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,259 | 5 | #4,147 |
| 1967 | under 5 | 6 | #3,567 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 7 | #3,250 |
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 Alexi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 5,976 Americans recorded as Alexi, 71% are girls and 29% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Alexi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alexi, and how old are they?
5,860 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 5,976 Americans ever recorded as Alexi. The median Alexi alive today is 24 years old; half are between 16 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 6,336 people named Alexi (4,104 women and girls, 2,232 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,547 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Alexi rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 217 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,490 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,170 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 980 |
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 Alexi born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 10 | #3,123 | 1.1× |
Where Alexi is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Alexi is most over-represented in California: since 1965 it was given 1.1 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 Alexi 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, Alexi is the third most given (3.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 41 of their 540 babies (7.6%), again the third 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 Alexi
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 Alexi and names like it
- Compare Alexi and AlexaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sAlexi peaked in 1998.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alexi since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Alexi.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Alexi alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.