Lexa
Lexa was given to 28 girls in 2025, #4,826 among girls’ names; 1,578 Americans have been recorded with it since 1949 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,550 Americans named Lexa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 8 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lexa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lexa mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Lexa is “a female given name from Ancient Greek.”
A short form of Alexa or Alexandra.
/ˈlɛksə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lexa?
#4,826 among girls’ names, 2025
Lexa fell from #3,681 in 2015 to #4,826 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 23.5 to 17.4 per million.
115 babies in 2017, the peak
Lexa peaked in 2017, when 115 girls were given it, #1,810 among girls’ names. The 28 births of 2025 are 24% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28 | #4,826 | 17.4 |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,296 | 11.7 |
| 2023 | 34 | #4,243 | 21.2 |
| 2022 | 44 | #3,570 | 26.8 |
| 2021 | 61 | #2,805 | 37.2 |
| 2020 | 56 | #2,917 | 34.6 |
| 2019 | 78 | #2,317 | 46.5 |
| 2018 | 112 | #1,824 | 65.8 |
| 2017 | 115 | #1,810 | 66.6 |
| 2016 | 58 | #2,927 | 32.7 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 42 | #3,681 | 23.5 |
| 2014 | 37 | #4,065 | 20.7 |
| 2013 | 34 | #4,299 | 19.4 |
| 2012 | 38 | #4,029 | 21.6 |
| 2011 | 42 | #3,698 | 23.9 |
| 2010 | 42 | #3,723 | 23.6 |
| 2009 | 54 | #3,149 | 29.4 |
| 2008 | 42 | #3,826 | 22.2 |
| 2007 | 42 | #3,826 | 21.8 |
| 2006 | 33 | #4,416 | 17.4 |
| 2005 | 46 | #3,343 | 24.9 |
| 2004 | 40 | #3,666 | 21.8 |
| 2003 | 47 | #3,157 | 25.7 |
| 2002 | 33 | #3,935 | 18.4 |
| 2001 | 29 | #4,267 | 16.1 |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,901 | 13.2 |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,662 | 13.5 |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,727 | 13.0 |
| 1997 | 33 | #3,501 | 19.0 |
| 1996 | 30 | #3,680 | 17.1 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,336 | 10.2 |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,618 | 12.3 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,817 | 8.8 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,810 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 29 | #3,674 | 15.5 |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,704 | 8.4 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,244 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,971 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,731 | 5.2 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,381 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,764 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,562 | 4.4 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,134 | 4.6 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,013 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,724 | 2.9 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,084 | 3.6 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,339 | 2.6 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,247 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,183 | 3.5 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,164 | 3.4 |
| 1955 | 7 | #4,988 | 3.6 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,482 | 4.1 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,142 | 2.7 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,733 | 3.8 |
| 1949 | 11 | #3,294 | 6.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lexa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lexa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lexa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lexa, and how old are they?
1,550 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,578 Americans ever recorded as Lexa. The median Lexa alive today is 15 years old; half are between 8 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 1,445 people named Lexa (1,437 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,329 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 49 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 34 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 165 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 586 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 714 |
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).
Where are babies named Lexa born?
The states with the most babies named Lexa are Texas, California and Florida, with 86% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 171 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| California | 107 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 36 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New York | 17 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Arizona | 10 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New Jersey | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Lexa is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lexa is most over-represented in Texas: since 1949 it was given 1.1 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 Lexa 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 51,608 babies since 1880, Lexa is the fourth most given (3.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 28 of their 688 babies (4.1%), 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 Lexa
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 Lexa and names like it
- Compare Lexa and LexiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sLexa peaked in 2017.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lexa since 1910.
- Ancient Greek namesWiktionary’s origin for Lexa: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Lexa.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Lexa alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.