How popular is “Alexandra” in the USA?

Number of people named “Alexandra” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Alexandra” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Alexandra” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Alexandra” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Alexandra” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Alexandra” by birth year

This chart shows how “Alexandra” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1894	5	0.000014763	5		100%
1895	8	0.000022791	8		100%
1902	10	0.000025858	10		100%
1903	8	0.000020986	8		100%
1905	9	0.00002123	9		100%
1906	7	0.000016338	7		100%
1907	9	0.000019339	9		100%
1908	6	0.000012279	6		100%
1909	9	0.000017605	9		100%
1910	10	0.000016929	10		100%
1911	13	0.000020178	13		100%
1912	22	0.000022266	22		100%
1913	15	0.000013191	15		100%
1914	35	0.000024712	35		100%
1915	49	0.000026741	49		100%
1916	45	0.000023263	45		100%
1917	46	0.000022923	46		100%
1918	47	0.000021648	47		100%
1919	45	0.000021325	45		100%
1920	36	0.000015911	36		100%
1921	50	0.000021418	45	5	80%
1922	34	0.000014853	34		100%
1923	43	0.000018676	43		100%
1924	40	0.000016795	40		100%
1925	39	0.000016715	39		100%
1926	40	0.000017422	40		100%
1927	40	0.000017246	40		100%
1928	29	0.000012827	29		100%
1929	24	0.000010948	24		100%
1930	33	0.000014843	33		100%
1931	17	0.000008078	17		100%
1932	27	0.000012788	27		100%
1933	41	0.000020506	41		100%
1934	48	0.000023112	48		100%
1935	45	0.000021532	45		100%
1936	53	0.00002551	53		100%
1937	47	0.000022059	47		100%
1938	66	0.00002983	66		100%
1939	67	0.000030407	67		100%
1940	64	0.000027794	64		100%
1941	67	0.000027499	67		100%
1942	120	0.000043927	120		100%
1943	124	0.000043932	124		100%
1944	120	0.000044608	120		100%
1945	116	0.000043726	116		100%
1946	133	0.000041624	133		100%
1947	147	0.000040807	147		100%
1948	128	0.000037074	128		100%
1949	150	0.000043044	150		100%
1950	117	0.000033397	117		100%
1951	136	0.000036919	136		100%
1952	164	0.000043181	164		100%
1953	144	0.000037367	144		100%
1954	167	0.000041952	167		100%
1955	158	0.000039352	158		100%
1956	172	0.000041717	172		100%
1957	175	0.000041645	175		100%
1958	171	0.000041365	171		100%
1959	194	0.000046657	194		100%
1960	203	0.000048871	203		100%
1961	217	0.000052386	217		100%
1962	215	0.000053279	215		100%
1963	236	0.000059623	236		100%
1964	295	0.000075882	295		100%
1965	305	0.000084128	305		100%
1966	316	0.000090918	316		100%
1967	385	0.000113406	385		100%
1968	522	0.00015451	522		100%
1969	557	0.000160273	549	8	97%
1970	631	0.000174961	626	5	98%
1971	582	0.000169563	577	5	98%
1972	633	0.0002014	624	9	97%
1973	683	0.000226392	675	8	98%
1974	713	0.00023454	708	5	99%
1975	734	0.000243095	723	11	97%
1976	703	0.000231684	692	11	97%
1977	752	0.000236739	745	7	98%
1978	764	0.000240716	764		100%
1979	834	0.000250676	828	6	99%
1980	886	0.000257221	873	13	97%
1981	1215	0.00035122	1207	8	99%
1982	1541	0.000439286	1529	12	98%
1983	1715	0.000495187	1700	15	98%
1984	2838	0.000813471	2815	23	98%
1985	3040	0.000851753	3017	23	98%
1986	3840	0.001079538	3809	31	98%
1987	5253	0.001456895	5219	34	99%
1988	7015	0.001898489	6972	43	99%
1989	7779	0.002023438	7680	99	97%
1990	8559	0.002165477	8508	51	99%
1991	9488	0.002435778	9459	29	99%
1992	10259	0.002670729	10221	38	99%
1993	10719	0.002843026	10682	37	99%
1994	10254	0.002758192	10226	28	99%
1995	10185	0.002781149	10160	25	100%
1996	10053	0.002756365	10024	29	99%
1997	8769	0.002418535	8751	18	100%
1998	8626	0.002345164	8608	18	100%
1999	8185	0.002215835	8163	22	99%
2000	7565	0.002001374	7550	15	100%
2001	7068	0.001888128	7044	24	99%
2002	6954	0.001860208	6936	18	99%
2003	6566	0.001726841	6545	21	99%
2004	6651	0.001740679	6625	26	99%
2005	6332	0.00164688	6318	14	100%
2006	6120	0.001546943	6101	19	99%
2007	5367	0.001342528	5354	13	100%
2008	4620	0.001175374	4612	8	100%
2009	4172	0.001092097	4166	6	100%
2010	4031	0.001090716	4020	11	99%
2011	3630	0.000992402	3630		100%
2012	3483	0.000952324	3483		100%
2013	3517	0.000964707	3509	8	100%
2014	3316	0.000894674	3316		100%
2015	3007	0.000812502	3007		100%
2016	2855	0.000778205	2855		100%
2017	2605	0.000728428	2605		100%
2018	2410	0.000685458	2410		100%
2019	2133	0.000614532	2133		100%
2020	1971	0.000590018	1966	5	99%
2021	1730	0.000510633	1725	5	99%
2022	1551	0.000458451	1551		100%
2023	1473	0.000444854	1473		100%
2024	1387	0.000416704	1387		100%

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