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Bexlee vs Bexley

American parents have registered 3,493 Bexleys since 1880, against 510 Bexlees. Bexley is still ahead, with 282 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Bexlee against Bexley, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Bexlee Bexley

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

Bexley has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 2009 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2024, when Bexlee had 56 and Bexley had 231.

Side by side

  Bexlee Bexley
Total US births 5103,493
Most in one year 65409
Babies in 2025 42282
Estimated living today 5103,500
Median age today 45
Peak year 20222021
Best rank 2,661st girls752nd girls
Rank in 2025 3,577th960th
First recorded 20132009
Girls / boys 510 / 03,239 / 254

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.

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: Bexlee and Bexley.