Meaning not yet researched.
Alexus: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 10 in 2025. Its best rank was #178 in 1996.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #178 in 1996; #9,484 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Alexus in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,484 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1996, at #178.
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Alexus: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 10 girls in 2025. Peak: #178 in 1996 · most girls in one year: 1,703 (1996).
In 2025, 10 US girls were named Alexus, making it the 9,484th most common girls’ name of the year, down 3,678 places from #5,806 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 21 girls named Alexus in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #178, reached in 1996. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,703. For comparison, it was #2,211 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alexus in 44 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1981 with 5 babies. In all, 18,875 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 1.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 10,260 babies named Alexus.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 293 US girls were named Alexus; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 55. In 2025 that was about 1 in 160,727 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Alexis (412,632 babies since 1880), Alexys (4,544 babies since 1880), Alexius (1,650 babies since 1880) and Alexsis (1,454 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 Alexus 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,484 | — | — |
| 2024 | 21 | #5,806 | — | — |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,657 | — | — |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,178 | — | — |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,425 | — | — |
| 2020 | 26 | #4,886 | — | — |
| 2019 | 32 | #4,348 | — | — |
| 2018 | 40 | #3,741 | — | — |
| 2017 | 52 | #3,094 | — | — |
| 2016 | 55 | #3,010 | 6 | #10,816 |
| 2015 | 85 | #2,211 | — | — |
| 2014 | 112 | #1,818 | — | — |
| 2013 | 148 | #1,496 | — | — |
| 2012 | 179 | #1,315 | 5 | #12,352 |
| 2011 | 179 | #1,312 | — | — |
| 2010 | 261 | #976 | 5 | #12,313 |
| 2009 | 309 | #887 | — | — |
| 2008 | 416 | #715 | — | — |
| 2007 | 476 | #627 | 9 | #8,199 |
| 2006 | 538 | #548 | 7 | #9,614 |
| 2005 | 547 | #528 | 9 | #7,654 |
| 2004 | 713 | #425 | 17 | #4,799 |
| 2003 | 814 | #370 | 7 | #8,686 |
| 2002 | 969 | #317 | 12 | #5,742 |
| 2001 | 1,121 | #280 | 10 | #6,462 |
| 2000 | 1,281 | #252 | 14 | #5,053 |
| 1999 | 1,403 | #228 | 16 | #4,346 |
| 1998 | 1,654 | #184 | 21 | #3,492 |
| 1997 | 1,674 | #183 | 14 | #4,457 |
| 1996 | 1,703 | #178 | 17 | #3,836 |
| 1995 | 1,213 | #234 | 10 | #5,514 |
| 1994 | 1,111 | #250 | 16 | #3,916 |
| 1993 | 726 | #354 | 19 | #3,371 |
| 1992 | 367 | #617 | 9 | #5,668 |
| 1991 | 199 | #952 | 9 | #5,532 |
| 1990 | 79 | #1,813 | — | — |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,164 | — | — |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,291 | — | — |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,370 | — | — |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,577 | — | — |
| 1984 | 11 | #5,913 | — | — |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,039 | — | — |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,546 | 6 | #5,644 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #6,293 |
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).