Meaning not yet researched.
Alyx: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,841 in 1993.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,841 in 1993; #10,982 in 2025. About 62% of babies named Alyx in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#10,982 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1993, at #1,841.
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Alyx: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,841 in 1993 · most girls in one year: 78 (1993).
In 2025, 8 US girls were named Alyx, making it the 10,982nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 3,366 places from #7,616 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 14 girls named Alyx in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,841, reached in 1993. That year also had the most girls given the name: 78. For comparison, it was #4,862 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 5 US boys were named Alyx, making it the 12,112th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,088 places from #11,024 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 6 boys named Alyx in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #5,884, reached in 1994. The most boys given the name in a single year was 11, in 2020. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alyx in 46 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1978 with 7 babies. In all, 1,477 US babies have been given the name, 88% of them girls and 12% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 548 babies named Alyx.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 202 US girls were named Alyx; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 31. In 2025 that was about 1 in 200,908 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Alex (295,991 babies since 1880) and Alix (4,573 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Alyx 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 | 8 | #10,982 | 5 | #12,112 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,616 | 6 | #11,024 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,663 | — | — |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,730 | 8 | #9,029 |
| 2021 | 22 | #5,587 | 5 | #12,239 |
| 2020 | 31 | #4,363 | 11 | #7,057 |
| 2019 | 24 | #5,315 | 8 | #8,933 |
| 2018 | 28 | #4,777 | 7 | #9,725 |
| 2017 | 21 | #5,836 | 6 | #10,852 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,636 | — | — |
| 2015 | 28 | #4,862 | — | — |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,809 | 6 | #10,780 |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,656 | — | — |
| 2012 | 25 | #5,405 | 6 | #10,852 |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,686 | — | — |
| 2010 | 28 | #4,985 | 5 | #12,330 |
| 2009 | 36 | #4,200 | — | — |
| 2008 | 30 | #4,895 | 8 | #9,046 |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,688 | 8 | #8,958 |
| 2006 | 37 | #3,997 | 5 | #12,135 |
| 2005 | 25 | #5,119 | 5 | #11,546 |
| 2004 | 27 | #4,829 | 10 | #6,998 |
| 2003 | 25 | #4,951 | — | — |
| 2002 | 29 | #4,286 | — | — |
| 2001 | 32 | #3,946 | 10 | #6,465 |
| 2000 | 31 | #3,988 | 6 | #9,143 |
| 1999 | 34 | #3,575 | — | — |
| 1998 | 41 | #3,072 | 7 | #7,596 |
| 1997 | 52 | #2,483 | 9 | #6,116 |
| 1996 | 55 | #2,372 | 8 | #6,520 |
| 1995 | 64 | #2,102 | 8 | #6,437 |
| 1994 | 45 | #2,703 | 9 | #5,884 |
| 1993 | 78 | #1,841 | 6 | #7,671 |
| 1992 | 45 | #2,687 | 5 | #8,490 |
| 1991 | 49 | #2,520 | — | — |
| 1990 | 33 | #3,299 | — | — |
| 1989 | 32 | #3,256 | 5 | #7,952 |
| 1988 | 29 | #3,311 | — | — |
| 1987 | 22 | #3,860 | — | — |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,730 | — | — |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,346 | — | — |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,310 | — | — |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,054 | — | — |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,557 | — | — |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,474 | — | — |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,671 | — | — |
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).