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Alexis vs Alexiz

American parents have registered 412,632 Alexises since 1880, against 514 Alexizes. Alexis is still ahead, with 1,131 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Alexis against Alexiz, 1880 to 2025 0 6k 12k 18k 24k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Alexis Alexiz

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

Alexis has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1882 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2007, when Alexis had 12,580 and Alexiz had 32.

Side by side

  Alexis Alexiz
Total US births 412,632514
Most in one year 22,09538
Babies in 2025 1,131under 5
Estimated living today 404,000510
Median age today 2522
Peak year 19982007
Best rank 6th girls6,093rd girls
Rank in 2025 554thunranked
First recorded 18821988
Girls / boys 344,557 / 68,075265 / 249

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 Alexises alive today are over 25; half the Alexizes are over 22. That is 3 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.

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