Meaning not yet researched.
Lex: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 60 in 2025. Its best rank was #913 in 1956.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #913 in 1956; #2,322 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lex in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,322 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1956, at #913.
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Lex: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 60 boys in 2025. Peak: #913 in 1956 · most boys in one year: 94 (2012).
In 2025, 60 US boys were named Lex, making it the 2,322nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 100 places from #2,222 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 65 boys named Lex in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #913, reached in 1956. The most boys given the name in a single year was 94, in 2012. For comparison, it was #2,081 in 2015 and #1,114 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lex in 120 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1892 with 5 babies. In all, 4,010 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 785 babies named Lex.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 813 US boys were named Lex; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 93. In 2025 that was about 1 in 28,468 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Lex ranked highest in Illinois in 2025, at #1,413 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Lexe are summarised on this page.
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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Lexe (5).
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 Lex in the open dataset we use.
Lex is listed as a nickname for Lexi.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 5 | #1,413 | — |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,469 | — |
| California | 8 | #1,928 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 60 | #2,322 |
| 2024 | — | — | 65 | #2,222 |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,583 | 90 | #1,794 |
| 2022 | — | — | 83 | #1,900 |
| 2021 | — | — | 93 | #1,743 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,515 | 83 | #1,807 |
| 2019 | — | — | 90 | #1,750 |
| 2018 | — | — | 82 | #1,849 |
| 2017 | — | — | 91 | #1,722 |
| 2016 | 5 | #17,758 | 76 | #1,933 |
| 2015 | — | — | 68 | #2,081 |
| 2014 | — | — | 59 | #2,265 |
| 2013 | — | — | 57 | #2,268 |
| 2012 | — | — | 94 | #1,649 |
| 2011 | — | — | 85 | #1,736 |
| 2010 | — | — | 78 | #1,863 |
| 2009 | — | — | 84 | #1,794 |
| 2008 | — | — | 87 | #1,749 |
| 2007 | — | — | 93 | #1,654 |
| 2006 | — | — | 90 | #1,613 |
| 2005 | — | — | 81 | #1,666 |
| 2004 | — | — | 79 | #1,643 |
| 2003 | — | — | 85 | #1,524 |
| 2002 | — | — | 59 | #1,907 |
| 2001 | — | — | 25 | #3,471 |
| 2000 | — | — | 30 | #2,962 |
| 1999 | — | — | 20 | #3,782 |
| 1998 | — | — | 27 | #2,985 |
| 1997 | — | — | 26 | #2,949 |
| 1996 | — | — | 21 | #3,357 |
| 1995 | — | — | 18 | #3,640 |
| 1994 | — | — | 24 | #2,998 |
| 1993 | — | — | 29 | #2,553 |
| 1992 | — | — | 25 | #2,787 |
| 1991 | — | — | 22 | #2,958 |
| 1990 | — | — | 25 | #2,670 |
| 1989 | — | — | 24 | #2,662 |
| 1988 | — | — | 25 | #2,409 |
| 1987 | — | — | 20 | #2,685 |
| 1986 | — | — | 15 | #3,217 |
| 1985 | — | — | 15 | #3,161 |
| 1984 | — | — | 14 | #3,204 |
| 1983 | — | — | 11 | #3,776 |
| 1982 | — | — | 14 | #3,216 |
| 1981 | — | — | 14 | #3,142 |
| 1980 | — | — | 12 | #3,537 |
| 1979 | — | — | 13 | #3,279 |
| 1978 | — | — | 14 | #3,011 |
| 1977 | — | — | 15 | #2,858 |
| 1976 | — | — | 14 | #2,903 |
| 1975 | — | — | 14 | #2,842 |
| 1974 | — | — | 17 | #2,416 |
| 1973 | — | — | 18 | #2,283 |
| 1972 | — | — | 11 | #3,082 |
| 1971 | — | — | 21 | #2,024 |
| 1970 | — | — | 25 | #1,772 |
| 1969 | — | — | 19 | #1,953 |
| 1968 | — | — | 18 | #1,935 |
| 1967 | — | — | 24 | #1,590 |
| 1966 | — | — | 33 | #1,336 |
| 1965 | — | — | 26 | #1,543 |
| 1964 | — | — | 37 | #1,300 |
| 1963 | — | — | 31 | #1,417 |
| 1962 | — | — | 44 | #1,183 |
| 1961 | — | — | 45 | #1,191 |
| 1960 | — | — | 39 | #1,261 |
| 1959 | — | — | 46 | #1,148 |
| 1958 | — | — | 47 | #1,121 |
| 1957 | — | — | 50 | #1,079 |
| 1956 | — | — | 67 | #913 |
| 1955 | — | — | 63 | #947 |
| 1954 | — | — | 59 | #968 |
| 1953 | — | — | 58 | #944 |
| 1952 | — | — | 42 | #1,142 |
| 1951 | — | — | 56 | #938 |
| 1950 | — | — | 41 | #1,114 |
| 1949 | — | — | 45 | #1,058 |
| 1948 | — | — | 23 | #1,541 |
| 1947 | — | — | 18 | #1,826 |
| 1946 | — | — | 9 | #2,625 |
| 1945 | — | — | 12 | #2,077 |
| 1944 | — | — | 16 | #1,791 |
| 1943 | — | — | 11 | #2,350 |
| 1942 | — | — | 8 | #2,836 |
| 1941 | — | — | 8 | #2,786 |
| 1940 | — | — | 12 | #2,139 |
| 1939 | — | — | 17 | #1,687 |
| 1938 | — | — | 14 | #1,943 |
| 1937 | — | — | 14 | #1,963 |
| 1936 | — | — | 15 | #1,849 |
| 1935 | — | — | 22 | #1,473 |
| 1934 | — | — | 16 | #1,822 |
| 1933 | — | — | 20 | #1,570 |
| 1932 | — | — | 16 | #1,890 |
| 1931 | — | — | 15 | #1,971 |
| 1930 | — | — | 10 | #2,708 |
| 1929 | — | — | 11 | #2,534 |
| 1928 | — | — | 9 | #2,973 |
| 1927 | — | — | 22 | #1,676 |
| 1926 | — | — | 21 | #1,688 |
| 1925 | — | — | 12 | #2,529 |
| 1924 | — | — | 24 | #1,607 |
| 1923 | — | — | 14 | #2,286 |
| 1922 | — | — | 21 | #1,733 |
| 1921 | — | — | 12 | #2,571 |
| 1920 | — | — | 17 | #2,009 |
| 1919 | — | — | 21 | #1,673 |
| 1918 | — | — | 15 | #2,123 |
| 1917 | — | — | 12 | #2,364 |
| 1916 | — | — | 9 | #2,845 |
| 1915 | — | — | 10 | #2,549 |
| 1914 | — | — | 11 | #2,053 |
| 1913 | — | — | 10 | #1,888 |
| 1912 | — | — | 8 | #1,979 |
| 1911 | — | — | 11 | #1,090 |
| 1909 | — | — | 7 | #1,222 |
| 1908 | — | — | 5 | #1,514 |
| 1898 | — | — | 6 | #1,071 |
| 1894 | — | — | 6 | #1,027 |
| 1892 | — | — | 5 | #1,175 |
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).