Lexis
Lexis was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,190 among girls’ names; 3,358 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,310 Americans named Lexis and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 20 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lexis by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lexis mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Lexis is “a female given name, variant of Alexis”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lexis?
#14,190 among girls’ names, 2025
Lexis fell from #4,194 in 2015 to #14,190 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 19.6 to 3.7 per million.
223 babies in 1998, the peak
Lexis peaked in 1998, when 223 babies were given it (217 girls, #947 among girls’ names). The 6 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,190 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,897 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,763 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,103 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,723 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,685 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,878 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,058 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,098 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,722 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 35 | #4,194 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 40 | #3,816 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 45 | #3,501 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 71 | #2,557 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 79 | #2,358 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 93 | #2,131 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 114 | #1,863 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 90 | #2,214 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 109 | #1,903 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 133 | #1,609 | 0.07 |
| 2005 | 118 | #1,686 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 178 | #1,233 | 0.10 |
| 2003 | 169 | #1,246 | 0.09 |
| 2002 | 163 | #1,234 | 0.09 |
| 2001 | 190 | #1,113 | 0.11 |
| 2000 | 187 | #1,100 | 0.10 |
| 1999 | 180 | #1,103 | 0.10 |
| 1998 | 217 | #947 | 0.12 |
| 1997 | 199 | #983 | 0.11 |
| 1996 | 199 | #965 | 0.11 |
| 1995 | 167 | #1,069 | 0.09 |
| 1994 | 139 | #1,240 | 0.08 |
| 1993 | 91 | #1,655 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 61 | #2,206 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 53 | #2,399 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 30 | #3,583 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,364 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,872 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,901 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,977 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,382 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,685 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,882 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lexis a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,358 Americans recorded as Lexis, 99% are girls and 1% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Lexis: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lexis, and how old are they?
3,310 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,358 Americans ever recorded as Lexis. The median Lexis alive today is 25 years old; half are between 20 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 3,314 people named Lexis (3,127 women and girls, 187 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,274 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 794 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,290 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 226 |
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 Lexis born?
The states with the most babies named Lexis are Texas, California and Ohio, with 33% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 249 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| California | 177 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 153 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 148 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 138 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Florida | 124 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 116 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 77 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Indiana | 74 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Minnesota | 47 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Lexis is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lexis is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1982 it was given 1.2 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 Lexis 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 10,545 babies since 1880, Lexis is the second most given (32% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 22 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 Lexis
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 Lexis and names like it
- Compare Lexis and LexusBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sLexis peaked in 1998.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lexis since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Lexis.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Lexis alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.