Meaning not yet researched.
Lexi: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 464 in 2025. Its best rank was #241 in 2014.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #241 in 2014; #628 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lexi in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#628 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2014, at #241.
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Lexi: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 464 girls in 2025. Peak: #241 in 2014 · most girls in one year: 1,334 (2014).
In 2025, 464 US girls were named Lexi, making it the 628th most common girls’ name of the year, down 65 places from #563 in 2024. That is 73 fewer than the 537 girls named Lexi in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #241, reached in 2014. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,334. For comparison, it was #308 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lexi in 63 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1948 with 5 babies. In all, 28,120 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 11,441 babies named Lexi.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 7,766 US girls were named Lexi; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 1,030. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,464 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Lexi ranked highest in Utah in 2025, at #399 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Lexie (17,225 babies since 1880), Alexi (5,976 babies since 1880) and Lexy (3,001 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Lexia, Lexee and Lexey are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Lex.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Lexia (783), Lexee (414), Lexey (208), Lexii (201), Leksi (32), Lexci (10), Lixy (6), Lexsie (5), Lexsy (5), Lexcie (5), Lexiee (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.
Lexi is listed as a nickname for Alexa, Alexis.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 22 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 11 | #399 | #117 |
| Washington | 18 | #400 | #350 |
| Nevada | 7 | #402 | #244 |
| California | 78 | #429 | #324 |
| Kansas | 7 | #476 | #246 |
| Texas | 68 | #480 | #294 |
| Arizona | 14 | #502 | #186 |
| Iowa | 6 | #541 | #201 |
| Pennsylvania | 20 | #545 | #319 |
| Indiana | 12 | #564 | #314 |
| Missouri | 10 | #577 | #368 |
| Michigan | 14 | #577 | #315 |
| Massachusetts | 9 | #596 | #387 |
| Kentucky | 7 | #623 | #237 |
| Illinois | 15 | #647 | #288 |
| Georgia | 16 | #665 | #366 |
| Wisconsin | 7 | #673 | #239 |
| Oregon | 5 | #689 | #334 |
| Minnesota | 7 | #700 | #334 |
| Tennessee | 10 | #735 | #363 |
| New York | 19 | #846 | #537 |
| Colorado | 6 | #860 | #514 |
| Alabama | 5 | #895 | #475 |
| Florida | 18 | #899 | #397 |
| Ohio | 10 | #930 | #298 |
| Maryland | 5 | #935 | #551 |
| Virginia | 7 | #996 | #449 |
| New Jersey | 7 | #996 | #489 |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,227 | #285 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 464 | #628 | — | — |
| 2024 | 537 | #563 | — | — |
| 2023 | 581 | #523 | 5 | #13,389 |
| 2022 | 719 | #440 | — | — |
| 2021 | 758 | #416 | — | — |
| 2020 | 844 | #367 | — | — |
| 2019 | 955 | #335 | — | — |
| 2018 | 931 | #342 | — | — |
| 2017 | 947 | #341 | — | — |
| 2016 | 1,030 | #316 | — | — |
| 2015 | 1,058 | #308 | — | — |
| 2014 | 1,334 | #241 | — | — |
| 2013 | 1,300 | #246 | — | — |
| 2012 | 1,302 | #249 | — | — |
| 2011 | 1,273 | #252 | — | — |
| 2010 | 1,311 | #242 | — | — |
| 2009 | 1,256 | #259 | — | — |
| 2008 | 1,127 | #297 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,006 | #334 | — | — |
| 2006 | 956 | #345 | — | — |
| 2005 | 869 | #361 | — | — |
| 2004 | 993 | #319 | — | — |
| 2003 | 787 | #387 | — | — |
| 2002 | 722 | #403 | — | — |
| 2001 | 642 | #430 | — | — |
| 2000 | 642 | #439 | — | — |
| 1999 | 703 | #399 | — | — |
| 1998 | 666 | #407 | — | — |
| 1997 | 371 | #612 | — | — |
| 1996 | 408 | #570 | — | — |
| 1995 | 294 | #711 | — | — |
| 1994 | 237 | #843 | — | — |
| 1993 | 206 | #926 | — | — |
| 1992 | 141 | #1,237 | — | — |
| 1991 | 132 | #1,274 | — | — |
| 1990 | 73 | #1,916 | — | — |
| 1989 | 71 | #1,865 | — | — |
| 1988 | 55 | #2,114 | — | — |
| 1987 | 45 | #2,348 | — | — |
| 1986 | 33 | #2,882 | — | — |
| 1985 | 38 | #2,568 | — | — |
| 1984 | 27 | #3,193 | — | — |
| 1983 | 29 | #2,947 | — | — |
| 1982 | 28 | #3,130 | — | — |
| 1981 | 34 | #2,695 | — | — |
| 1980 | 26 | #3,272 | — | — |
| 1979 | 25 | #3,287 | — | — |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,690 | — | — |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,018 | — | — |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,782 | — | — |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,607 | — | — |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,723 | — | — |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,941 | — | — |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,928 | — | — |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,888 | — | — |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,983 | — | — |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,235 | — | — |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,430 | — | — |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,166 | — | — |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,109 | — | — |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,328 | — | — |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,828 | — | — |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,663 | — | — |
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).