Alexis — #507 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Alexis

The Social Security Administration has registered 343,984 babies named Alexis between 1931 and 2024, spanning 94 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Alexis currently holds the #507 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1998, when 19,778 babies received it in a single year. Alexis is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 67,485 additional births since 1882.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Alexis performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 131,198 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Alexis shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 38,975 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Alexis in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Alexis 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 343,984 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.