Meaning not yet researched.
Alexandria: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 647 in 2025. Its best rank was #69 in 1993.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #69 in 1993; #474 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Alexandria in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#474 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1993, at #69.
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Alexandria: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 647 girls in 2025. Peak: #69 in 1993 · most girls in one year: 5,027 (1993).
In 2025, 647 US girls were named Alexandria, making it the 474th most common girls’ name of the year, down 11 places from #463 in 2024. That is 31 fewer than the 678 girls named Alexandria in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #69, reached in 1993. That year also had the most girls given the name: 5,027. For comparison, it was #212 in 2015 and #1,681 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alexandria in 122 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1902 with 6 babies. In all, 104,778 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 44,183 babies named Alexandria.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 9,742 US girls were named Alexandria; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 1,477. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,484 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Alexandria ranked highest in Nevada in 2025, at #264 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Alexandra (246,320 babies since 1880), Alexandrea (8,656 babies since 1880) and Alexzandria (1,749 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Alyxandria, Alixandria and Alexandrya are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Alex, Alexander, Alla, Drina and Sandra.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Alyxandria (600), Alixandria (572), Alexandrya (374), Alexzandrea (358), Alexsandria (177), Alixandrea (100), Alexaundria (57), Alyxandrea (48), Aleksandria (34), Alexondria (24), Alexandriah (21), Alexendria (15), and more.
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 18 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nevada | 10 | #264 | #168 |
| Oklahoma | 14 | #297 | #169 |
| West Virginia | 5 | #312 | #146 |
| Arizona | 22 | #317 | #171 |
| Arkansas | 9 | #337 | #140 |
| Idaho | 6 | #353 | #180 |
| Indiana | 17 | #396 | #174 |
| Ohio | 28 | #401 | #141 |
| Michigan | 20 | #424 | #176 |
| California | 79 | #426 | #280 |
| Florida | 44 | #426 | #184 |
| North Carolina | 26 | #427 | #131 |
| Colorado | 13 | #429 | #214 |
| Tennessee | 18 | #432 | #150 |
| Illinois | 24 | #436 | #220 |
| Kentucky | 9 | #444 | #102 |
| Kansas | 7 | #446 | #115 |
| Georgia | 25 | #452 | #163 |
| Washington | 15 | #453 | #242 |
| Texas | 73 | #457 | #218 |
| South Carolina | 10 | #469 | #264 |
| New Jersey | 16 | #472 | #233 |
| Pennsylvania | 21 | #487 | #215 |
| Utah | 8 | #491 | #226 |
| Maryland | 10 | #511 | #308 |
| Missouri | 11 | #516 | #167 |
| New York | 28 | #586 | #236 |
| Virginia | 12 | #610 | #315 |
| Wisconsin | 7 | #615 | #352 |
| Massachusetts | 8 | #629 | #259 |
| Louisiana | 6 | #680 | #891 |
| Alabama | 6 | #718 | #160 |
| Minnesota | 6 | #737 | #765 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 647 | #474 | — | — |
| 2024 | 678 | #463 | — | — |
| 2023 | 760 | #403 | — | — |
| 2022 | 775 | #406 | — | — |
| 2021 | 884 | #353 | — | — |
| 2020 | 983 | #320 | — | — |
| 2019 | 1,105 | #299 | — | — |
| 2018 | 1,184 | #282 | — | — |
| 2017 | 1,249 | #257 | — | — |
| 2016 | 1,477 | #218 | — | — |
| 2015 | 1,544 | #212 | — | — |
| 2014 | 1,609 | #211 | — | — |
| 2013 | 1,566 | #204 | — | — |
| 2012 | 1,523 | #205 | — | — |
| 2011 | 1,530 | #205 | — | — |
| 2010 | 1,515 | #204 | — | — |
| 2009 | 1,643 | #200 | — | — |
| 2008 | 1,794 | #189 | — | — |
| 2007 | 2,203 | #164 | — | — |
| 2006 | 2,335 | #147 | 5 | #12,121 |
| 2005 | 2,455 | #133 | 5 | #11,528 |
| 2004 | 2,653 | #125 | 12 | #6,146 |
| 2003 | 2,752 | #123 | 8 | #7,867 |
| 2002 | 3,148 | #106 | — | — |
| 2001 | 3,404 | #91 | 5 | #10,614 |
| 2000 | 3,549 | #91 | 8 | #7,450 |
| 1999 | 3,789 | #83 | 5 | #9,969 |
| 1998 | 4,009 | #81 | 5 | #9,669 |
| 1997 | 4,234 | #78 | — | — |
| 1996 | 4,563 | #77 | — | — |
| 1995 | 4,772 | #72 | 9 | #5,939 |
| 1994 | 4,840 | #73 | 11 | #5,117 |
| 1993 | 5,027 | #69 | 15 | #4,020 |
| 1992 | 4,796 | #73 | 18 | #3,459 |
| 1991 | 4,470 | #78 | 11 | #4,767 |
| 1990 | 3,595 | #95 | 14 | #3,976 |
| 1989 | 3,059 | #104 | 26 | #2,473 |
| 1988 | 2,275 | #124 | 10 | #4,458 |
| 1987 | 1,554 | #179 | 15 | #3,203 |
| 1986 | 1,120 | #233 | 10 | #4,141 |
| 1985 | 855 | #289 | 6 | #5,803 |
| 1984 | 848 | #285 | 9 | #4,221 |
| 1983 | 551 | #398 | — | — |
| 1982 | 592 | #390 | 7 | #5,024 |
| 1981 | 552 | #404 | — | — |
| 1980 | 244 | #697 | — | — |
| 1979 | 186 | #836 | — | — |
| 1978 | 196 | #780 | — | — |
| 1977 | 144 | #959 | — | — |
| 1976 | 146 | #903 | — | — |
| 1975 | 147 | #896 | — | — |
| 1974 | 156 | #841 | — | — |
| 1973 | 130 | #934 | — | — |
| 1972 | 136 | #912 | — | — |
| 1971 | 148 | #896 | — | — |
| 1970 | 134 | #949 | — | — |
| 1969 | 126 | #951 | — | — |
| 1968 | 86 | #1,166 | — | — |
| 1967 | 89 | #1,103 | — | — |
| 1966 | 82 | #1,178 | — | — |
| 1965 | 69 | #1,303 | — | — |
| 1964 | 51 | #1,594 | — | — |
| 1963 | 69 | #1,330 | — | — |
| 1962 | 53 | #1,540 | — | — |
| 1961 | 52 | #1,568 | — | — |
| 1960 | 49 | #1,597 | — | — |
| 1959 | 37 | #1,820 | — | — |
| 1958 | 46 | #1,578 | — | — |
| 1957 | 40 | #1,705 | — | — |
| 1956 | 61 | #1,329 | — | — |
| 1955 | 32 | #1,878 | — | — |
| 1954 | 45 | #1,506 | — | — |
| 1953 | 39 | #1,566 | — | — |
| 1952 | 33 | #1,713 | — | — |
| 1951 | 46 | #1,383 | — | — |
| 1950 | 31 | #1,681 | — | — |
| 1949 | 38 | #1,489 | — | — |
| 1948 | 49 | #1,314 | — | — |
| 1947 | 34 | #1,634 | — | — |
| 1946 | 29 | #1,647 | — | — |
| 1945 | 37 | #1,312 | — | — |
| 1944 | 25 | #1,663 | — | — |
| 1943 | 29 | #1,556 | — | — |
| 1942 | 34 | #1,387 | — | — |
| 1941 | 29 | #1,446 | — | — |
| 1940 | 22 | #1,682 | — | — |
| 1939 | 25 | #1,514 | — | — |
| 1938 | 19 | #1,805 | — | — |
| 1937 | 17 | #1,915 | 6 | #3,180 |
| 1936 | 18 | #1,802 | — | — |
| 1935 | 19 | #1,780 | — | — |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,570 | — | — |
| 1933 | 14 | #2,162 | — | — |
| 1932 | 14 | #2,237 | — | — |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,427 | — | — |
| 1930 | 27 | #1,501 | — | — |
| 1929 | 26 | #1,527 | — | — |
| 1928 | 32 | #1,366 | — | — |
| 1927 | 27 | #1,587 | — | — |
| 1926 | 38 | #1,264 | — | — |
| 1925 | 33 | #1,410 | — | — |
| 1924 | 34 | #1,411 | — | — |
| 1923 | 39 | #1,245 | 5 | #4,248 |
| 1922 | 31 | #1,464 | — | — |
| 1921 | 39 | #1,237 | — | — |
| 1920 | 37 | #1,256 | — | — |
| 1919 | 44 | #1,105 | — | — |
| 1918 | 43 | #1,129 | — | — |
| 1917 | 37 | #1,183 | — | — |
| 1916 | 38 | #1,147 | — | — |
| 1915 | 33 | #1,192 | — | — |
| 1914 | 31 | #1,080 | — | — |
| 1913 | 26 | #1,067 | — | — |
| 1912 | 17 | #1,299 | — | — |
| 1911 | 12 | #1,374 | — | — |
| 1910 | 16 | #1,113 | — | — |
| 1909 | 13 | #1,152 | — | — |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,871 | — | — |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,644 | — | — |
| 1905 | 5 | #1,938 | 5 | #1,236 |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,491 | — | — |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,600 | — | — |
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).