Alixander
Alixander was given to 7 boys in 2025, #9,761 among boys’ names; 288 Americans have been recorded with it since 1984 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alixander by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Alixander?
#9,761 among boys’ names, 2025
Alixander fell from #8,772 in 2015 to #9,761 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 4.2 to 4.1 per million.
18 babies in 2005, the peak
Alixander peaked in 2005, when 18 boys were given it, #4,627 among boys’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 39% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #9,761 | 4.1 |
| 2024 | 6 | #11,009 | 3.5 |
| 2021 | 9 | #8,198 | 5.1 |
| 2019 | 10 | #7,666 | 5.6 |
| 2017 | 7 | #9,736 | 3.8 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,172 | 4.7 |
| 2015 | 8 | #8,772 | 4.2 |
| 2014 | 13 | #6,315 | 6.8 |
| 2013 | 7 | #9,692 | 3.7 |
| 2012 | 5 | #12,350 | 2.6 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 14 | #5,955 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 5 | #12,312 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 17 | #5,338 | 8.6 |
| 2008 | 10 | #7,710 | 4.9 |
| 2007 | 11 | #7,111 | 5.3 |
| 2006 | 11 | #6,918 | 5.4 |
| 2005 | 18 | #4,627 | 9.0 |
| 2004 | 12 | #6,143 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 7 | #8,682 | 3.5 |
| 2002 | 13 | #5,401 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 8 | #7,546 | 4.1 |
| 2000 | 9 | #6,848 | 4.6 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,163 | 4.2 |
| 1998 | 13 | #4,878 | 6.8 |
| 1996 | 6 | #7,997 | 3.2 |
| 1995 | 13 | #4,513 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 12 | #4,807 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 6 | #7,663 | 3.1 |
| 1992 | 9 | #5,662 | 4.5 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,342 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Alixander a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alixander has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Alixander: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alixander, and how old are they?
An estimated 283 Americans named Alixander and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 13 and 26. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 218 people named Alixander (5 women and girls, 213 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 263 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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.
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 6 names spelled alike, given to 742,897 babies since 1880, Alixander is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 7,275 babies (<1%), the third most given that year.
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 Alixander
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 Alixander and names like it
- Compare Alixander and AlexanderBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAlixander peaked in 2005.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Alixander.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Alixander alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.