Meaning not yet researched.
Alexes: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 0 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,413 in 1994.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Fewer than five US girls were given it in 2025. It peaked at #2,413 in 1994. No US babies were recorded with the name Alexes in 2025.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
Given to fewer than five US girls in 2025; it peaked at #2,413 in 1994.
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Alexes: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 0 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,413 in 1994 · most girls in one year: 53 (1996).
Fewer than five US girls were named Alexes in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #2,413, reached in 1994. The most girls given the name in a single year was 53, in 1996. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US boys were named Alexes in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #4,676, reached in 1997. The most boys given the name in a single year was 14, in 2006. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alexes in 28 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1976 with 6 babies. In all, 839 US babies have been given the name, 83% of them girls and 17% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 429 babies named Alexes.
In none of the 10 years from 2016 to 2025 were five or more US girls named Alexes.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Alexis (412,632 babies since 1880), Alexus (18,875 babies since 1880), Alexys (4,544 babies since 1880) and Alexius (1,650 babies since 1880).
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.
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.
No nicknames listed for Alexes in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 10 | #10,421 | — | — |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,484 | — | — |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,500 | 8 | #9,020 |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,754 | — | — |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,105 | — | — |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,161 | 14 | #5,797 |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,812 | 11 | #6,651 |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,067 | 11 | #6,539 |
| 2003 | 41 | #3,475 | 7 | #8,684 |
| 2002 | 37 | #3,597 | 6 | #9,433 |
| 2001 | 29 | #4,213 | 8 | #7,551 |
| 2000 | 47 | #2,976 | 14 | #5,051 |
| 1999 | 49 | #2,783 | 12 | #5,327 |
| 1998 | 49 | #2,733 | 6 | #8,503 |
| 1997 | 49 | #2,592 | 13 | #4,676 |
| 1996 | 53 | #2,423 | 8 | #6,514 |
| 1995 | 41 | #2,880 | 8 | #6,429 |
| 1994 | 53 | #2,413 | 8 | #6,392 |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,102 | 5 | #8,730 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,061 | — | — |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,008 | — | — |
| 1990 | 12 | #6,882 | — | — |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,295 | — | — |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,124 | — | — |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,332 | — | — |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,176 | — | — |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,037 | — | — |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,180 | — | — |
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).