Alexei
Alexei is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 47 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 470.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 202151 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1961
- 1,450people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,333 boys have been named Alexei in the United States since 1961, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2021, with 51 births.
It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2021, within the last few years of data.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2006, and the 2000s alone account for 28%.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 117 girls have also been given it, 8.1% of the total.
By decade
In 2021, its biggest year
Alexei was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2021 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, Elijah and James. See all of 2021.
Names that rose and fell with Alexei
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Irampeak 2024
- Kenanpeak 2024
- Lisandropeak 2002
- Adnanpeak 2023
- Nicodemuspeak 2022
- Alipeak 2022
- Keonipeak 2013
- Menachempeak 2014
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.