Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Alexes” in the USA?

Number of people named “Alexes” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Alexes” 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 “Alexes” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Alexes” by birth year

This chart shows how “Alexes” 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
1976 6 0.000001977 6 100%
1983 6 0.000001732 6 100%
1984 7 0.000002006 7 100%
1985 6 0.000001681 6 100%
1988 10 0.000002706 10 100%
1989 16 0.000004162 16 100%
1990 12 0.000003036 12 100%
1991 19 0.000004878 19 100%
1992 19 0.000004946 19 100%
1993 30 0.000007957 25 5 67%
1994 61 0.000016408 53 8 74%
1995 49 0.00001338 41 8 67%
1996 61 0.000016725 53 8 74%
1997 62 0.0000171 49 13 58%
1998 55 0.000014953 49 6 78%
1999 61 0.000016514 49 12 61%
2000 61 0.000016138 47 14 54%
2001 37 0.000009884 29 8 57%
2002 43 0.000011503 37 6 72%
2003 48 0.000012624 41 7 71%
2004 36 0.000009422 25 11 39%
2005 32 0.000008323 21 11 31%
2006 31 0.000007836 17 14 10%
2007 18 0.000004503 18 100%
2008 16 0.000004071 16 100%
2009 17 0.00000445 9 8 6%
2010 10 0.000002706 10 100%
2011 10 0.000002734 10 100%

Explore other names

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  9. Alexeya
  10. Alexi
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