Unisex name · since 2015
Bex
108 babies named Bex in U.S. Social Security records since 2015, with the highest year being 2025. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #16,906 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #5,190 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 108
- born since 2015
- 2020s
- peak decade
Bex currently ranks #5190 among unisex names in America, with 108 babies recorded since 2015.
Bex has 108 recorded births among boys since 2015, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #5190 as of the latest data, more common than 63% of boys, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2015 to 2025.
- #16,906 of 45,481 all-time among boys
- #5,190 of 13,930 2025 SSA year
- 108 born since 2015
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Bex ranks #16,906 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #5,190 of 13,930 among boys' names in 2025. 108 born since 2015, peaking in the 2020s.
- #16,906 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #5,190 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 108
- born since 2015
- 2020s
- peak decade
Bex's 108 recorded births place it above 62.72% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Bex compares
108 27th percentile among 13,930 names currently given to boys
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked boys names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Bex's all-time total is 71% below the median boys name, and Liam still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Bex | Median boys name (Takari) | #1 boys name (Liam) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 108 | 369 | 358,536 |
| Peak-year births | 19 | 34 | 22,252 |
Bex's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Bex's SSA record in two at 2021 and the more recent half accounts for 69% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 31%, consistent with a name still gaining ground rather than fading. Its calmest year was 2019, with only 6 births recorded -- set against the 2025 peak of 19, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Bex popularity over time - boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2015–2025
- Peak year (2025)
- 19
- Annual births at peak, across 11 years of records
Bex popularity over time - girls
30 total births recorded since 2020 (Bex as girls' name)
Bex by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (88 births, 81% of the file).
2020s was Bex's strongest decade.
88 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 81% of all-time use.
Bex births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s 20
2010s
20 births
- 2020s
2020s
88 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 88 births (81% of all-time use).
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2015–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Bex draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.