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Alexa vs Alexcia

American parents have registered 131,835 Alexas since 1880, against 1,539 Alexcias. Alexa is still ahead, with 243 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Alexa against Alexcia, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Alexa Alexcia

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

Alexa has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1916 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1979, when Alexa had 176 and Alexcia had 11.

Side by side

  Alexa Alexcia
Total US births 131,8351,539
Most in one year 6,125106
Babies in 2025 243under 5
Estimated living today 130,0001,500
Median age today 1923
Peak year 20062000
Best rank 39th girls1,659th girls
Rank in 2025 1,029thunranked
First recorded 19161974
Girls / boys 131,551 / 2841,539 / 0

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 Alexcias alive today are over 23; half the Alexas are over 19. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

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 Alexcia
England and Wales 4,17677
France 2,1105

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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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Alexa and Alexcia.