Alexia
Alexia was given to 239 girls in 2025, #1,040 among girls’ names; 46,236 Americans have been recorded with it since 1916 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 45,500 Americans named Alexia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 16 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alexia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Alexia mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Alexia is “a female given name from Ancient Greek.”
Feminine form of Alexius.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Alexia?
#1,040 among girls’ names, 2025
Alexia fell from #319 in 2015 to #1,040 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.57 to 0.15 per 1,000.
2,697 babies in 2002, the peak
Alexia peaked in 2002, when 2,697 babies were given it (2,691 girls, #128 among girls’ names). The 239 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 239 | #1,040 | 0.15 |
| 2024 | 305 | #884 | 0.19 |
| 2023 | 342 | #815 | 0.21 |
| 2022 | 337 | #831 | 0.21 |
| 2021 | 309 | #881 | 0.19 |
| 2020 | 373 | #732 | 0.23 |
| 2019 | 471 | #632 | 0.28 |
| 2018 | 604 | #519 | 0.36 |
| 2017 | 771 | #412 | 0.45 |
| 2016 | 868 | #378 | 0.49 |
Every recorded year (93)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,019 | #319 | 0.57 |
| 2014 | 1,224 | #270 | 0.69 |
| 2013 | 1,833 | #175 | 1.0 |
| 2012 | 1,288 | #251 | 0.73 |
| 2011 | 1,150 | #277 | 0.65 |
| 2010 | 1,297 | #245 | 0.73 |
| 2009 | 1,474 | #220 | 0.80 |
| 2008 | 1,610 | #213 | 0.85 |
| 2007 | 1,946 | #179 | 1.0 |
| 2006 | 2,132 | #165 | 1.1 |
| 2005 | 2,126 | #160 | 1.2 |
| 2004 | 2,449 | #132 | 1.3 |
| 2003 | 2,495 | #133 | 1.4 |
| 2002 | 2,691 | #128 | 1.5 |
| 2001 | 2,295 | #143 | 1.3 |
| 2000 | 2,019 | #165 | 1.1 |
| 1999 | 1,651 | #188 | 0.93 |
| 1998 | 1,365 | #229 | 0.77 |
| 1997 | 1,119 | #259 | 0.64 |
| 1996 | 1,077 | #266 | 0.61 |
| 1995 | 912 | #304 | 0.52 |
| 1994 | 881 | #310 | 0.49 |
| 1993 | 692 | #367 | 0.38 |
| 1992 | 456 | #522 | 0.25 |
| 1991 | 464 | #508 | 0.25 |
| 1990 | 422 | #558 | 0.22 |
| 1989 | 318 | #647 | 0.17 |
| 1988 | 266 | #711 | 0.15 |
| 1987 | 221 | #793 | 0.13 |
| 1986 | 154 | #1,001 | 0.09 |
| 1985 | 154 | #987 | 0.09 |
| 1984 | 157 | #935 | 0.09 |
| 1983 | 162 | #918 | 0.10 |
| 1982 | 244 | #710 | 0.14 |
| 1981 | 184 | #846 | 0.11 |
| 1980 | 143 | #1,016 | 0.09 |
| 1979 | 116 | #1,144 | 0.07 |
| 1978 | 86 | #1,366 | 0.06 |
| 1977 | 78 | #1,429 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 94 | #1,206 | 0.06 |
| 1975 | 105 | #1,111 | 0.07 |
| 1974 | 82 | #1,300 | 0.06 |
| 1973 | 59 | #1,571 | 0.04 |
| 1972 | 44 | #1,890 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 41 | #2,035 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 46 | #1,877 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 64 | #1,465 | 0.04 |
| 1968 | 59 | #1,473 | 0.04 |
| 1967 | 47 | #1,659 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 45 | #1,669 | 0.03 |
| 1965 | 47 | #1,635 | 0.03 |
| 1964 | 17 | #3,109 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 21 | #2,704 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 30 | #2,163 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 23 | #2,544 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 32 | #2,013 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 17 | #2,868 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,197 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 18 | #2,729 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 15 | #3,049 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 26 | #2,107 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 19 | #2,518 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 24 | #2,123 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 21 | #2,266 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 15 | #2,694 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 17 | #2,436 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 16 | #2,515 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 19 | #2,258 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 20 | #2,200 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,742 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 14 | #2,339 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,764 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,696 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,262 | under 0.01 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,215 | under 0.01 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,341 | under 0.01 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,815 | under 0.01 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,395 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 5 | #4,979 | under 0.01 |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,017 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,673 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,829 | under 0.01 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,557 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Alexia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alexia has been given almost only to girls: 44 boys in 93 years of records.
Girls and boys named Alexia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alexia, and how old are they?
45,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 46,236 Americans ever recorded as Alexia. The median Alexia alive today is 22 years old; half are between 16 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 39,584 people named Alexia (39,429 women and girls, 155 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 43,839 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 24 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 291 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,090 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 6,610 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 28,800 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 8,640 |
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 Alexia born?
The states with the most babies named Alexia are California, Texas and Florida, with 54% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 44 | #700 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 35 | #840 | 1.3× |
| Florida | 19 | #825 | 1.2× |
| Arizona | 17 | #391 | 1.7× |
| New York | 14 | #1,030 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 10 | #853 | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 9 | #977 | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 8 | #815 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,217 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,239 | 0.7× |
Where Alexia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Alexia is most over-represented in Arizona: since 1916 it was given 1.7 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 Alexia 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, Alexia is the second most given (25% of them). In 2025 it was given to 239 of their 540 babies (44%), again the second 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 Alexia
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 Alexia and names like it
- Compare Alexia and AlexaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAlexia peaked in 2002.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alexia since 1910.
- Ancient Greek namesWiktionary’s origin for Alexia: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Alexia.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Alexia alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.