Alexa vs Alexandria
American parents have registered 131,835 Alexas since 1880, against 104,778 Alexandrias. But in 2025 it was Alexandria that was commoner, 647 babies to 243.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Alexa Alexandria
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 122 years in which either name was published, Alexandria for 88 years and Alexa for 34 years. The lead changed hands 12 times.
- 1902–1946 Alexandria ahead
- 1949–1953 Alexa ahead
- 1958–1972 Alexandria ahead
- 1973–1977 Alexa ahead
- 1978–1999 Alexandria ahead
- 2000–2020 Alexa ahead
- 2021–2025 Alexandria ahead
6 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Alexa | Alexandria | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 131,835 | 104,778 |
| Most in one year | 6,125 | 5,042 |
| Babies in 2025 | 243 | 647 |
| Estimated living today | 130,000 | 102,000 |
| Median age today | 19 | 27 |
| Peak year | 2006 | 1993 |
| Best rank | 39th girls | 69th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 1,029th | 474th |
| First recorded | 1916 | 1902 |
| Girls / boys | 131,551 / 284 | 104,548 / 230 |
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 Alexandrias alive today are over 27; half the Alexas are over 19. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Alexa Nevada (3.6×), Arizona (2.3×), California (1.7×)
- Alexandria Nevada (2.4×), Alaska (1.9×), Arizona (1.7×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
Both names abroad
Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.
| Country | Alexa | Alexandria |
|---|---|---|
| England and Wales | 4,176 | 1,318 |
| France | 2,110 | 25 |
| Scotland | 404 | 341 |
| Ireland | 221 | 153 |
| Northern Ireland | 122 | 57 |
Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.
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Related comparisons
Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Alexa and Alexandria.