Alexis
Alexis is ranked 506th among girls in 2024 (604 births). Its best rank was 3rd, in 1999.
- Rank in 2024
- #506down 58 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 6040.04% of girls
- Peak year
- 199819,778 births
- Best rank
- #3in 1999
- Since 1931
- 411,469people given the name
The story in the numbers
343,984 girls have been named Alexis in the United States since 1931, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1998, with 19,778 births — 1.1% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 604 births in 2024, against 19,778 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2000, and the 1990s alone account for 38%. It has spent 81 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 31 of them in the top 100 and 8 in the top 10.
Alexis is used for both sexes: 16% of its bearers are boys (67,485), most of them born around 2004.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Alexis | |
|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 5 | |
| 1940s | 1,330 | |
| 1950s | 2,028 | |
| 1960s | 1,666 | |
| 1970s | 6,053 | |
| 1980s | 26,323 | |
| 1990s | 131,198 | |
| 2000s | 130,831 | |
| 2010s | 40,403 | |
| 2020s | 4,147 |
In 1998, its biggest year
Alexis was the 6th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1998 were Emily, Hannah, Samantha, Sarah and Ashley. See all of 1998.
Names that rose and fell with Alexis
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Destinipeak 1999
- Elexispeak 1996
- Destineypeak 2000
- Adreannapeak 1997
- Shiannepeak 1997
- Destaniepeak 1998
- Chyannepeak 1999
- Destineepeak 1999
Other spellings in the data
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.