Alexiah — girls' name
475 babies named Alexiah in U.S. Social Security records since 1997, with the highest year being 2006. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
57% of everyone ever named Alexiah was born in this single decade.
43 babies were named Alexiah in 2006 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Alexiah
The Social Security Administration has registered 475 babies named Alexiah between 1997 and 2019, spanning 23 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Alexiah currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 2006, when 43 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Alexiah performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 270 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Alexiah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 38 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Alexiah in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Alexiah 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 475 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.
Alexiah at a glance
Last recorded 2019Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Alexiah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2019–1997
- Peak year (2006)
- 43
- Annual births at peak — across 23 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2019.
475 total births across 23 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2006 with 43 births in a single year.
Alexiah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 270 births that decade — 57% of Alexiah's all-time total
Alexiah decade highlights
- Peak decade 270 births
- Runner-up 180 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Alexiah's strongest decade
270 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 57% of all-time use.
Alexiah by state
Where Alexiah concentrates geographically — total births since 1997
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 38 | 8.0% |
| #2 | Texas | | 19 | 4.0% |
| #3 | Florida | | 5 | 1.1% |
| #4 | Indiana | | 5 | 1.1% |
38 of 475 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 4 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 8.0% of nationwide
- Texas 4.0% of nationwide
- Florida 1.1% of nationwide
- Indiana 1.1% of nationwide
Recorded in 4 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 8.0% 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, 1997–2019 (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.