Alyx
Alyx is given to both girls and boys: 8 girls and 5 boys were given it in 2025 (#10,978 among girls’ names and #12,108 among boys’, #13,584 among all names counting both); 1,477 Americans have been recorded with it since 1978 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,450 Americans named Alyx and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 14 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alyx by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Alyx?
#10,978 among girls’ names, 2025
Alyx fell from #4,861 in 2015 to #10,978 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 15.7 to 5.0 per million.
84 babies in 1993, the peak
Alyx peaked in 1993, when 84 babies were given it (78 girls, #1,837 among girls’ names). The 13 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 15% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #10,978 | 5 | #12,108 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,612 | 6 | #11,019 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,658 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,725 | 8 | #9,024 |
| 2021 | 22 | #5,583 | 5 | #12,233 |
| 2020 | 31 | #4,361 | 11 | #7,052 |
| 2019 | 24 | #5,313 | 8 | #8,928 |
| 2018 | 28 | #4,775 | 7 | #9,719 |
| 2017 | 21 | #5,832 | 6 | #10,847 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,634 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 28 | #4,861 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,807 | 6 | #10,774 |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,654 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 25 | #5,403 | 6 | #10,845 |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,685 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 28 | #4,983 | 5 | #12,323 |
| 2009 | 36 | #4,199 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 30 | #4,893 | 8 | #9,040 |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,687 | 8 | #8,952 |
| 2006 | 37 | #3,996 | 5 | #12,128 |
| 2005 | 25 | #5,115 | 5 | #11,538 |
| 2004 | 27 | #4,825 | 10 | #6,992 |
| 2003 | 25 | #4,946 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 29 | #4,282 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 32 | #3,942 | 10 | #6,458 |
| 2000 | 31 | #3,983 | 6 | #9,135 |
| 1999 | 34 | #3,572 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 41 | #3,069 | 7 | #7,588 |
| 1997 | 52 | #2,480 | 9 | #6,110 |
| 1996 | 55 | #2,369 | 8 | #6,513 |
| 1995 | 64 | #2,097 | 8 | #6,430 |
| 1994 | 45 | #2,698 | 9 | #5,878 |
| 1993 | 78 | #1,837 | 6 | #7,665 |
| 1992 | 45 | #2,682 | 5 | #8,482 |
| 1991 | 49 | #2,514 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 33 | #3,294 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 32 | #3,250 | 5 | #7,945 |
| 1988 | 29 | #3,306 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 22 | #3,857 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,727 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,343 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,309 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,052 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,554 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,472 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,669 | under 5 |
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 Alyx a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,477 Americans recorded as Alyx, 88% are girls and 12% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Alyx: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alyx, and how old are they?
1,450 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,477 Americans ever recorded as Alyx. The median Alyx alive today is 25 years old; half are between 14 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 1,471 people named Alyx (1,266 women and girls, 205 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,330 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 7 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 528 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 585 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 335 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 6,186 babies since 1880, Alyx is the second most given (24% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 48 babies (27%), 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 Alyx
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 Alyx and names like it
- Compare Alyx and AlixBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sAlyx peaked in 1993.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alyx since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Alyx.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Alyx alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.