Lexi
Lexi was given to 464 girls in 2025, #628 among girls’ names; 28,120 Americans have been recorded with it since 1948 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 27,800 Americans named Lexi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 10 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lexi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lexi mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Lexi is “a diminutive of the female given names Alexa, Alexandra, Alexia, and Alexis, from Ancient Greek, variant of Lexie.”
/ˈlɛksi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lexi?
#628 among girls’ names, 2025
Lexi fell from #308 in 2015 to #628 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.59 to 0.29 per 1,000.
1,334 babies in 2014, the peak
Lexi peaked in 2014, when 1,334 girls were given it, #241 among girls’ names. The 464 births of 2025 are 35% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 464 | #628 | 0.29 |
| 2024 | 537 | #563 | 0.33 |
| 2023 | 581 | #523 | 0.36 |
| 2022 | 719 | #440 | 0.44 |
| 2021 | 758 | #416 | 0.46 |
| 2020 | 844 | #367 | 0.52 |
| 2019 | 955 | #335 | 0.57 |
| 2018 | 931 | #342 | 0.55 |
| 2017 | 947 | #341 | 0.55 |
| 2016 | 1,030 | #316 | 0.58 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,058 | #308 | 0.59 |
| 2014 | 1,334 | #241 | 0.75 |
| 2013 | 1,300 | #246 | 0.74 |
| 2012 | 1,302 | #249 | 0.74 |
| 2011 | 1,273 | #252 | 0.72 |
| 2010 | 1,311 | #242 | 0.74 |
| 2009 | 1,256 | #259 | 0.68 |
| 2008 | 1,127 | #297 | 0.60 |
| 2007 | 1,006 | #334 | 0.52 |
| 2006 | 956 | #345 | 0.50 |
| 2005 | 869 | #361 | 0.47 |
| 2004 | 993 | #319 | 0.54 |
| 2003 | 787 | #387 | 0.43 |
| 2002 | 722 | #403 | 0.40 |
| 2001 | 642 | #430 | 0.36 |
| 2000 | 642 | #439 | 0.35 |
| 1999 | 703 | #399 | 0.40 |
| 1998 | 666 | #407 | 0.38 |
| 1997 | 371 | #612 | 0.21 |
| 1996 | 408 | #570 | 0.23 |
| 1995 | 294 | #710 | 0.17 |
| 1994 | 237 | #842 | 0.13 |
| 1993 | 206 | #925 | 0.11 |
| 1992 | 141 | #1,235 | 0.08 |
| 1991 | 132 | #1,270 | 0.07 |
| 1990 | 73 | #1,912 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 71 | #1,860 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 55 | #2,109 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 45 | #2,346 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 33 | #2,881 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 38 | #2,567 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 27 | #3,192 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 29 | #2,946 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 28 | #3,129 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 34 | #2,695 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 26 | #3,272 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 25 | #3,287 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,689 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,016 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,780 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,605 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,721 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,939 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,927 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,887 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,982 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,234 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,429 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,165 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,108 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,326 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,827 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,661 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lexi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lexi has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 63 years of records.
Girls and boys named Lexi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lexi, and how old are they?
27,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 28,120 Americans ever recorded as Lexi. The median Lexi alive today is 15 years old; half are between 10 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 27,809 people named Lexi (27,676 women and girls, 133 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 24,217 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 29 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 135 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,810 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 14,500 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 11,400 |
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 Lexi born?
The states with the most babies named Lexi are California, Texas and Pennsylvania, with 39% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 78 | #429 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 68 | #480 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 20 | #545 | 0.8× |
| New York | 19 | #846 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 18 | #899 | 0.8× |
| Washington | 18 | #400 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 16 | #665 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 15 | #647 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 14 | #577 | 0.9× |
| Arizona | 14 | #502 | 1.1× |
Where Lexi is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lexi is most over-represented in Utah: since 1948 it was given 1.7 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 Lexi 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, Lexi is the most given (54% of them). In 2025 it was given to 464 of their 688 babies (67%), 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 Lexi
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 Lexi and names like it
- Compare Lexi and LexieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sLexi peaked in 2014.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lexi since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Lexi.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Lexi alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.