Meaning not yet researched.
Alexa: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 243 in 2025. Its best rank was #32 in 2015.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #32 in 2015; #1,029 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Alexa in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,029 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2015, at #32.
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Alexa: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 243 girls in 2025. Peak: #32 in 2015 · most girls in one year: 6,117 (2006).
In 2025, 243 US girls were named Alexa, making it the 1,029th most common girls’ name of the year, down 223 places from #806 in 2024. That is 106 fewer than the 349 girls named Alexa in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #32, reached in 2015. The most girls given the name in a single year was 6,117, in 2006. For comparison, it was #32 in 2015 and #1,495 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alexa in 97 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1916 with 5 babies. In all, 131,835 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 48,220 babies named Alexa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 17,395 US girls were named Alexa; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 4,775. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,614 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Alexa ranked highest in Kansas in 2025, at #583 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Alex (295,991 babies since 1880) and Alexia (46,236 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Alexsa, Aleksa and Alexah are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Alex and Lexi.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian and Romanian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Alexsa (631), Aleksa (602), Alexah (540), Alexza (220), Allexa (102), Alexssa (35), Alyxa (32), Alecxa (18), Alekza (17), Alecsa (11), Alixa (10), Alekxa (6).
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.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 36 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas | 5 | #583 | #57 |
| Texas | 46 | #663 | #11 |
| Illinois | 14 | #670 | #22 |
| California | 42 | #733 | #11 |
| Maryland | 6 | #735 | #69 |
| Florida | 22 | #736 | #37 |
| Kentucky | 5 | #748 | #131 |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #796 | #98 |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #879 | #80 |
| Tennessee | 7 | #895 | #89 |
| Michigan | 7 | #967 | #133 |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,042 | #123 |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,142 | #105 |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,177 | #22 |
| New York | 8 | #1,534 | #33 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 243 | #1,029 | — | — |
| 2024 | 349 | #806 | — | — |
| 2023 | 492 | #606 | — | — |
| 2022 | 577 | #535 | — | — |
| 2021 | 708 | #440 | — | — |
| 2020 | 1,285 | #230 | 5 | #12,116 |
| 2019 | 2,002 | #139 | 6 | #10,867 |
| 2018 | 3,068 | #90 | 8 | #8,853 |
| 2017 | 3,896 | #66 | 5 | #12,336 |
| 2016 | 4,775 | #51 | 5 | #12,274 |
| 2015 | 6,053 | #32 | 14 | #6,005 |
| 2014 | 4,249 | #64 | 7 | #9,682 |
| 2013 | 4,106 | #60 | 7 | #9,694 |
| 2012 | 4,297 | #57 | — | — |
| 2011 | 4,510 | #55 | 8 | #8,792 |
| 2010 | 5,043 | #50 | 7 | #9,729 |
| 2009 | 5,311 | #43 | 7 | #9,900 |
| 2008 | 5,226 | #50 | 13 | #6,406 |
| 2007 | 5,785 | #40 | 9 | #8,198 |
| 2006 | 6,117 | #39 | 8 | #8,755 |
| 2005 | 4,664 | #66 | 10 | #7,118 |
| 2004 | 4,440 | #72 | 28 | #3,372 |
| 2003 | 4,598 | #67 | 6 | #9,616 |
| 2002 | 4,401 | #69 | 6 | #9,432 |
| 2001 | 3,898 | #78 | 11 | #6,026 |
| 2000 | 3,674 | #87 | 8 | #7,448 |
| 1999 | 3,644 | #89 | 8 | #7,164 |
| 1998 | 3,622 | #93 | — | — |
| 1997 | 3,090 | #106 | 6 | #8,154 |
| 1996 | 3,260 | #100 | 6 | #8,001 |
| 1995 | 3,359 | #100 | — | — |
| 1994 | 3,441 | #95 | 18 | #3,598 |
| 1993 | 3,037 | #107 | 11 | #5,010 |
| 1992 | 2,234 | #140 | 6 | #7,454 |
| 1991 | 2,476 | #127 | 11 | #4,766 |
| 1990 | 2,131 | #146 | 8 | #5,840 |
| 1989 | 1,305 | #203 | 5 | #7,942 |
| 1988 | 918 | #273 | 7 | #5,766 |
| 1987 | 821 | #294 | 9 | #4,585 |
| 1986 | 498 | #432 | 5 | #6,749 |
| 1985 | 200 | #816 | — | — |
| 1984 | 208 | #775 | 6 | #5,583 |
| 1983 | 219 | #745 | — | — |
| 1982 | 215 | #767 | — | — |
| 1981 | 222 | #743 | — | — |
| 1980 | 179 | #859 | — | — |
| 1979 | 176 | #875 | — | — |
| 1978 | 175 | #846 | — | — |
| 1977 | 189 | #792 | — | — |
| 1976 | 202 | #723 | — | — |
| 1975 | 211 | #702 | — | — |
| 1974 | 213 | #690 | — | — |
| 1973 | 152 | #847 | — | — |
| 1972 | 92 | #1,169 | — | — |
| 1971 | 68 | #1,489 | — | — |
| 1970 | 86 | #1,270 | — | — |
| 1969 | 75 | #1,304 | — | — |
| 1968 | 79 | #1,231 | — | — |
| 1967 | 46 | #1,682 | — | — |
| 1966 | 32 | #2,058 | — | — |
| 1965 | 28 | #2,249 | — | — |
| 1964 | 30 | #2,197 | — | — |
| 1963 | 34 | #2,017 | — | — |
| 1962 | 47 | #1,651 | — | — |
| 1961 | 36 | #1,921 | — | — |
| 1960 | 34 | #1,953 | — | — |
| 1959 | 26 | #2,235 | — | — |
| 1958 | 39 | #1,733 | — | — |
| 1957 | 53 | #1,458 | — | — |
| 1956 | 33 | #1,871 | — | — |
| 1955 | 41 | #1,597 | — | — |
| 1954 | 33 | #1,801 | — | — |
| 1953 | 39 | #1,565 | — | — |
| 1952 | 52 | #1,333 | — | — |
| 1951 | 55 | #1,254 | — | — |
| 1950 | 38 | #1,495 | — | — |
| 1949 | 45 | #1,376 | — | — |
| 1948 | 48 | #1,328 | — | — |
| 1947 | 46 | #1,358 | — | — |
| 1946 | 24 | #1,860 | — | — |
| 1945 | 20 | #1,875 | — | — |
| 1944 | 16 | #2,200 | — | — |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,203 | — | — |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,448 | — | — |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,961 | — | — |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,439 | — | — |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,215 | — | — |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,342 | — | — |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,751 | — | — |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,302 | — | — |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,314 | — | — |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,119 | — | — |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,085 | — | — |
| 1923 | 5 | #4,979 | — | — |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,474 | — | — |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,606 | — | — |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,430 | — | — |
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).