Aleda vs Alexis
American parents have registered 412,632 Alexises since 1880, against 1,046 Aledas. Alexis is still ahead, with 1,131 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Aleda Alexis
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 133 years in which either name was published, Alexis for 100 years and Aleda for 33 years. The lead changed hands 24 times.
23 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Aleda | Alexis | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 1,046 | 412,632 |
| Most in one year | 25 | 22,095 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | 1,131 |
| Estimated living today | 470 | 404,000 |
| Median age today | 63 | 25 |
| Peak year | 1922 | 1998 |
| Best rank | 1,682nd girls | 6th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | 554th |
| First recorded | 1889 | 1882 |
| Girls / boys | 1,046 / 0 | 344,557 / 68,075 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Aledas alive today are over 63; half the Alexises are over 25. That is 38 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Aleda and Alexis.