Meaning not yet researched.
Alex: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,515 in 2025. Its best rank was #47 in 1995.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #47 in 1995; #232 in 2025. About 96% of babies named Alex in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#232 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1995, at #47.
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Alex: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,515 boys in 2025. Peak: #47 in 1995 · most boys in one year: 7,639 (1993).
In 2025, 1,515 US boys were named Alex, making it the 232nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 27 places from #205 in 2024. That is 213 fewer than the 1,728 boys named Alex in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #47, reached in 1995. The most boys given the name in a single year was 7,639, in 1993. For comparison, it was #134 in 2015 and #244 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alex in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 147 babies with the name. In all, 295,991 US babies have been given the name, 3.3% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 74,307 babies named Alex.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 21,542 US boys were named Alex; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 2,855. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,127 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Alex ranked highest in Rhode Island in 2025, at #141 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Alexander (740,668 babies since 1880), Alexa (131,835 babies since 1880), Alexi (5,976 babies since 1880) and Alexandre (5,389 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Allex, Allix and Aleix are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Al.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, English, Italian and Slovene. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Allex (248), Allix (136), Aleix (56), Allyx (42), Alexs (34), Alax (18), Alexe (15), Alexz (14), Alixe (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
Alex is listed as a nickname for Aleksandr, Alexa, Alexander, Alexandra, Alexandria, Alexis.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 10 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rhode Island | 8 | #141 | #93 |
| Florida | 153 | #142 | #127 |
| California | 252 | #153 | #94 |
| District of Columbia | 5 | #168 | #143 |
| New Mexico | 10 | #194 | #176 |
| Connecticut | 17 | #197 | #141 |
| New Jersey | 49 | #200 | #98 |
| Massachusetts | 30 | #207 | #108 |
| Texas | 190 | #207 | #130 |
| Arizona | 40 | #209 | #120 |
| Illinois | 56 | #211 | #134 |
| Nevada | 14 | #214 | #99 |
| Washington | 36 | #220 | #144 |
| Alabama | 25 | #223 | #140 |
| North Dakota | 5 | #226 | — |
| New York | 77 | #248 | #106 |
| South Dakota | 5 | #257 | #147 |
| Georgia | 48 | #258 | #123 |
| Virginia | 33 | #261 | #200 |
| Maryland | 20 | #269 | #176 |
| Indiana | 30 | #272 | #159 |
| Arkansas | 13 | #273 | #121 |
| Tennessee | 32 | #273 | #148 |
| Minnesota | 22 | #275 | #137 |
| Louisiana | 18 | #278 | #163 |
| Kentucky | 19 | #281 | #142 |
| Pennsylvania | 40 | #286 | #150 |
| Kansas | 12 | #297 | #185 |
| Ohio | 41 | #298 | #198 |
| North Carolina | 39 | #309 | #165 |
| Oregon | 13 | #312 | #147 |
| Mississippi | 10 | #313 | #180 |
| Missouri | 20 | #326 | #217 |
| South Carolina | 16 | #327 | #160 |
| Nebraska | 7 | #336 | #123 |
| Wisconsin | 16 | #340 | #169 |
| Michigan | 25 | #346 | #160 |
| Iowa | 10 | #347 | #165 |
| Oklahoma | 13 | #351 | #189 |
| Colorado | 15 | #398 | #177 |
| Utah | 9 | #475 | #143 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 71 | #2,487 | 1,515 | #232 |
| 2024 | 88 | #2,151 | 1,728 | #205 |
| 2023 | 100 | #1,966 | 1,814 | #203 |
| 2022 | 148 | #1,478 | 2,006 | #190 |
| 2021 | 130 | #1,613 | 1,969 | #192 |
| 2020 | 171 | #1,294 | 2,122 | #183 |
| 2019 | 151 | #1,460 | 2,401 | #165 |
| 2018 | 171 | #1,325 | 2,526 | #153 |
| 2017 | 189 | #1,251 | 2,606 | #151 |
| 2016 | 177 | #1,338 | 2,855 | #146 |
| 2015 | 187 | #1,287 | 3,113 | #134 |
| 2014 | 160 | #1,422 | 3,192 | #128 |
| 2013 | 146 | #1,511 | 3,559 | #110 |
| 2012 | 132 | #1,629 | 3,870 | #98 |
| 2011 | 168 | #1,370 | 4,041 | #95 |
| 2010 | 173 | #1,352 | 4,442 | #93 |
| 2009 | 174 | #1,367 | 5,174 | #83 |
| 2008 | 169 | #1,406 | 5,400 | #84 |
| 2007 | 192 | #1,277 | 6,275 | #72 |
| 2006 | 234 | #1,083 | 6,670 | #67 |
| 2005 | 229 | #1,044 | 6,488 | #71 |
| 2004 | 242 | #982 | 6,812 | #63 |
| 2003 | 220 | #1,039 | 6,794 | #62 |
| 2002 | 226 | #978 | 6,807 | #63 |
| 2001 | 219 | #981 | 6,613 | #62 |
| 2000 | 239 | #913 | 6,748 | #62 |
| 1999 | 279 | #786 | 6,828 | #58 |
| 1998 | 279 | #771 | 6,954 | #55 |
| 1997 | 322 | #674 | 6,855 | #55 |
| 1996 | 352 | #637 | 6,915 | #53 |
| 1995 | 441 | #537 | 7,424 | #47 |
| 1994 | 394 | #581 | 7,240 | #50 |
| 1993 | 425 | #562 | 7,639 | #52 |
| 1992 | 366 | #618 | 7,351 | #54 |
| 1991 | 369 | #611 | 6,673 | #63 |
| 1990 | 250 | #802 | 6,951 | #59 |
| 1989 | 241 | #789 | 6,543 | #60 |
| 1988 | 270 | #705 | 6,408 | #58 |
| 1987 | 210 | #829 | 6,042 | #60 |
| 1986 | 143 | #1,055 | 5,111 | #64 |
| 1985 | 86 | #1,445 | 3,909 | #80 |
| 1984 | 86 | #1,368 | 3,026 | #93 |
| 1983 | 27 | #3,067 | 2,155 | #123 |
| 1982 | 46 | #2,185 | 1,964 | #143 |
| 1981 | 32 | #2,775 | 1,873 | #148 |
| 1980 | 30 | #2,941 | 1,681 | #156 |
| 1979 | 20 | #3,780 | 1,656 | #156 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,249 | 1,468 | #164 |
| 1977 | 22 | #3,370 | 1,610 | #153 |
| 1976 | 24 | #3,003 | 1,359 | #172 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,598 | 1,327 | #175 |
| 1974 | 24 | #2,925 | 1,385 | #171 |
| 1973 | 22 | #3,019 | 1,246 | #184 |
| 1972 | 17 | #3,544 | 1,182 | #196 |
| 1971 | 14 | #4,127 | 1,361 | #188 |
| 1970 | 15 | #3,874 | 1,403 | #191 |
| 1969 | 13 | #3,959 | 1,212 | #207 |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,457 | 1,163 | #200 |
| 1967 | 13 | #3,658 | 1,130 | #205 |
| 1966 | 6 | #5,815 | 1,023 | #218 |
| 1965 | 11 | #3,956 | 1,246 | #200 |
| 1964 | 14 | #3,518 | 1,240 | #218 |
| 1963 | 8 | #4,901 | 1,306 | #215 |
| 1962 | 13 | #3,594 | 1,267 | #217 |
| 1961 | 21 | #2,673 | 1,217 | #228 |
| 1960 | 17 | #2,989 | 1,230 | #226 |
| 1959 | 12 | #3,621 | 1,164 | #234 |
| 1958 | 14 | #3,233 | 1,019 | #245 |
| 1957 | 10 | #3,935 | 896 | #253 |
| 1956 | 7 | #4,842 | 809 | #253 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,218 | 712 | #263 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,283 | 743 | #259 |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,271 | 716 | #260 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,487 | 700 | #258 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,719 | 690 | #254 |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,669 | 749 | #244 |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,393 | 730 | #242 |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,353 | 764 | #234 |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,245 | 794 | #228 |
| 1946 | — | — | 706 | #225 |
| 1945 | — | — | 639 | #217 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,690 | 620 | #221 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,811 | 660 | #222 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,128 | 681 | #215 |
| 1941 | — | — | 641 | #210 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,872 | 620 | #208 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,257 | 597 | #204 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,353 | 601 | #206 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,263 | 564 | #211 |
| 1936 | — | — | 564 | #210 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,436 | 581 | #207 |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,569 | 623 | #198 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,230 | 606 | #197 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,428 | 683 | #192 |
| 1931 | 9 | #2,978 | 727 | #182 |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,426 | 760 | #180 |
| 1929 | 18 | #1,953 | 775 | #180 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,202 | 799 | #179 |
| 1927 | 18 | #2,096 | 888 | #169 |
| 1926 | 10 | #3,052 | 805 | #179 |
| 1925 | 5 | #4,985 | 903 | #165 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,084 | 978 | #162 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,384 | 940 | #161 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,666 | 1,003 | #155 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,673 | 1,022 | #149 |
| 1920 | 11 | #2,902 | 1,069 | #142 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,830 | 1,082 | #137 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,517 | 1,207 | #131 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,718 | 1,081 | #132 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,267 | 1,094 | #128 |
| 1915 | 11 | #2,532 | 1,008 | #131 |
| 1914 | — | — | 789 | #131 |
| 1913 | — | — | 604 | #130 |
| 1912 | — | — | 482 | #135 |
| 1911 | — | — | 268 | #129 |
| 1910 | — | — | 256 | #127 |
| 1909 | — | — | 227 | #123 |
| 1908 | — | — | 199 | #127 |
| 1907 | — | — | 186 | #127 |
| 1906 | — | — | 176 | #122 |
| 1905 | — | — | 166 | #133 |
| 1904 | — | — | 169 | #125 |
| 1903 | — | — | 138 | #135 |
| 1902 | — | — | 154 | #125 |
| 1901 | — | — | 138 | #120 |
| 1900 | — | — | 192 | #120 |
| 1899 | — | — | 133 | #122 |
| 1898 | — | — | 149 | #125 |
| 1897 | — | — | 130 | #128 |
| 1896 | — | — | 165 | #112 |
| 1895 | — | — | 143 | #117 |
| 1894 | — | — | 152 | #112 |
| 1893 | — | — | 133 | #120 |
| 1892 | — | — | 163 | #110 |
| 1891 | — | — | 133 | #109 |
| 1890 | — | — | 147 | #111 |
| 1889 | — | — | 127 | #114 |
| 1888 | — | — | 167 | #102 |
| 1887 | — | — | 136 | #104 |
| 1886 | — | — | 161 | #96 |
| 1885 | — | — | 159 | #92 |
| 1884 | — | — | 148 | #105 |
| 1883 | — | — | 120 | #108 |
| 1882 | — | — | 172 | #89 |
| 1881 | — | — | 114 | #109 |
| 1880 | — | — | 147 | #92 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).