Bexley
Bexley was given to 268 girls in 2025, #963 among girls’ names; 3,493 Americans have been recorded with it since 2009 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,470 Americans named Bexley and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 4 and 9.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bexley by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Bexley mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Bexley is “a female given name.” Its etymology gives the senses “box tree” (byxe) and “wood” (leah) and “lea” (-ley).
From Old English byxe (“box tree”) + leah (“wood”), equivalent to box + -ley (“lea”).
/ˈbɛksli/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Bexley?
#963 among girls’ names, 2025
Bexley rose from #1,215 in 2015 to #963 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.11 to 0.17 per 1,000.
409 babies in 2021, the peak
Bexley peaked in 2021, when 409 babies were given it (378 girls, #753 among girls’ names). The 282 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 69% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 268 | #963 | 0.17 |
| 2024 | 214 | #1,128 | 0.13 |
| 2023 | 237 | #1,056 | 0.15 |
| 2022 | 314 | #888 | 0.19 |
| 2021 | 378 | #753 | 0.23 |
| 2020 | 325 | #840 | 0.20 |
| 2019 | 278 | #952 | 0.17 |
| 2018 | 296 | #908 | 0.17 |
| 2017 | 286 | #925 | 0.17 |
| 2016 | 276 | #974 | 0.16 |
Every recorded year (17)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 204 | #1,215 | 0.11 |
| 2014 | 64 | #2,715 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 56 | #2,978 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,636 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,515 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,454 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,540 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Bexley a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,493 Americans recorded as Bexley, 93% are girls and 7% boys. In 2025 it went to 268 girls and 14 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Bexley: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bexley, and how old are they?
3,470 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,493 Americans ever recorded as Bexley. The median Bexley alive today is 6 years old; half are between 4 and 9.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 51 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,420 |
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.
Where are babies named Bexley born?
The states with the most babies named Bexley are Ohio, Texas and Indiana, with 31% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Indiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 30 | #372 | 3.0× |
| Texas | 23 | #1,160 | 0.8× |
| Indiana | 15 | #449 | 1.9× |
| Florida | 12 | #1,181 | 0.4× |
| Tennessee | 11 | #652 | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 10 | #745 | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #877 | 0.5× |
| Missouri | 9 | #600 | 1.2× |
| Kentucky | 9 | #450 | 1.5× |
| Utah | 8 | #496 | 2.2× |
Where Bexley is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Bexley is most over-represented in Ohio: since 2009 it was given 3.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Bexley with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 4,114 babies since 1880, Bexley is the most given (85% of them). In 2025 it was given to 282 of their 339 babies (83%), again the 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 Bexley
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 Bexley and names like it
- Compare Bexley and BexleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sBexley peaked in 2021.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bexley since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Bexley.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Bexley alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.