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Lexie vs Lexy

American parents have registered 17,225 Lexies since 1880, against 3,001 Lexys. Lexie is still ahead, with 163 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lexie against Lexy, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lexie Lexy

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

Lexie has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1886 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1977, when Lexie had 13 and Lexy had 5.

Side by side

  Lexie Lexy
Total US births 17,2253,001
Most in one year 647136
Babies in 2025 16327
Estimated living today 15,0003,000
Median age today 1819
Peak year 20102005
Best rank 467th girls1,519th girls
Rank in 2025 1,352nd4,878th
First recorded 18861977
Girls / boys 16,789 / 4363,001 / 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.

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 Lexie Lexy
England and Wales 7,564254
France 2,795770
Scotland 68212
Belgium 382134

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: Lexie and Lexy.