How popular is “Alexis” in the USA?

Number of people named “Alexis” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Alexis” by birth year

This chart shows how “Alexis” 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
1882	6	0.000027084		6	-100%
1887	5	0.000020211		5	-100%
1895	5	0.000014244		5	-100%
1907	5	0.000010744		5	-100%
1911	8	0.000012417		8	-100%
1912	14	0.000014169		14	-100%
1913	6	0.000005277		6	-100%
1914	14	0.000009885		14	-100%
1915	14	0.00000764		14	-100%
1916	20	0.000010339		20	-100%
1917	19	0.000009468		19	-100%
1918	13	0.000005988		13	-100%
1919	18	0.00000853		18	-100%
1920	19	0.000008397		19	-100%
1921	19	0.000008139		19	-100%
1922	9	0.000003932		9	-100%
1923	17	0.000007383		17	-100%
1924	14	0.000005878		14	-100%
1925	18	0.000007714		18	-100%
1926	13	0.000005662		13	-100%
1927	11	0.000004743		11	-100%
1928	8	0.000003538		8	-100%
1929	11	0.000005018		11	-100%
1930	8	0.000003598		8	-100%
1931	17	0.000008078	5	12	-41%
1932	11	0.00000521		11	-100%
1933	13	0.000006502		13	-100%
1934	11	0.000005297		11	-100%
1935	9	0.000004306		9	-100%
1937	12	0.000005632		12	-100%
1938	5	0.00000226		5	-100%
1939	13	0.0000059		13	-100%
1940	7	0.00000304		7	-100%
1941	12	0.000004925	5	7	-17%
1942	52	0.000019035	36	16	38%
1943	100	0.000035429	89	11	78%
1944	147	0.000054645	124	23	69%
1945	137	0.000051641	122	15	78%
1946	237	0.000074171	221	16	86%
1947	264	0.000073286	248	16	88%
1948	231	0.000066908	217	14	88%
1949	289	0.000082932	268	21	85%
1950	248	0.000070789	230	18	85%
1951	272	0.000073838	252	20	85%
1952	280	0.000073723	252	28	80%
1953	243	0.000063057	216	27	78%
1954	210	0.000052754	177	33	69%
1955	203	0.000050559	173	30	70%
1956	226	0.000054814	181	45	60%
1957	229	0.000054496	194	35	69%
1958	231	0.000055879	185	46	60%
1959	217	0.000052189	168	49	55%
1960	233	0.000056093	168	65	44%
1961	223	0.000053835	154	69	38%
1962	230	0.000056996	154	76	34%
1963	237	0.000059876	172	65	45%
1964	190	0.000048873	104	86	9%
1965	270	0.000074474	165	105	22%
1966	289	0.00008315	186	103	29%
1967	324	0.000095437	185	139	14%
1968	284	0.000084063	174	110	23%
1969	338	0.000097257	204	134	21%
1970	477	0.000132261	353	124	48%
1971	501	0.000145964	344	157	37%
1972	532	0.000169265	396	136	49%
1973	639	0.000211808	487	152	52%
1974	781	0.000256908	601	180	54%
1975	895	0.000296417	676	219	51%
1976	907	0.000298916	693	214	53%
1977	964	0.000303479	724	240	50%
1978	1025	0.00032295	771	254	50%
1979	1339	0.000402465	1008	331	51%
1980	1621	0.000470604	1269	352	57%
1981	1989	0.000574959	1584	405	59%
1982	3883	0.001106911	3122	761	61%
1983	4119	0.001189315	3462	657	68%
1984	3768	0.001080041	3292	476	75%
1985	3036	0.000850632	2517	519	66%
1986	2627	0.000738528	2198	429	67%
1987	2938	0.00081484	2460	478	67%
1988	3319	0.00089823	2901	418	75%
1989	4067	0.001057889	3518	549	73%
1990	5994	0.001516517	5257	737	75%
1991	7768	0.001994216	7009	759	80%
1992	8715	0.002268779	7948	767	82%
1993	11934	0.003165283	10833	1101	82%
1994	14327	0.003853776	13039	1288	82%
1995	16215	0.004427721	14334	1881	77%
1996	18387	0.005041408	16592	1795	80%
1997	20353	0.005613461	17171	3182	69%
1998	22095	0.006007003	19778	2317	79%
1999	21671	0.005866752	19237	2434	78%
2000	20346	0.005382677	17631	2715	73%
2001	19173	0.005121828	16404	2769	71%
2002	18015	0.004819047	15636	2379	74%
2003	17588	0.004625598	14867	2721	69%
2004	17652	0.004619826	13477	4175	53%
2005	15026	0.00390809	11976	3050	59%
2006	14441	0.00365023	11239	3202	56%
2007	12580	0.003146823	9923	2657	58%
2008	12075	0.003071999	9734	2341	61%
2009	11963	0.003131532	9944	2019	66%
2010	9899	0.00267849	8278	1621	67%
2011	8019	0.002192306	6537	1482	63%
2012	6932	0.001895353	5372	1560	55%
2013	5976	0.001639206	4785	1191	60%
2014	5421	0.001462615	4246	1175	57%
2015	4430	0.001197002	3435	995	55%
2016	3660	0.000997629	2695	965	47%
2017	2876	0.000804207	2072	804	44%
2018	2331	0.000662989	1655	676	42%
2019	1998	0.000575638	1328	670	33%
2020	1649	0.000493627	1033	616	25%
2021	1581	0.000466654	947	634	20%
2022	1546	0.000456973	877	669	13%
2023	1328	0.000401064	686	642	3%
2024	1240	0.00037254	604	636	-3%

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