Alexei
The boy's name Alexei has been in the national records since 1961, with 1,486 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 3,240th. About 1,500 Alexeis are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 18.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,486
- Estimated living today
- 1,500
- Median age today
- 18
- Peak year
- 2021
- Best rank
- 2,552nd
- Rank in 2025
- 3,240th
- First recorded
- 1961
- Girls / boys
- 117 / 1,369
How old the living Alexeis are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,486 babies given the name since 1961, about 1,500 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 700 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2007 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Alexeis
- Alexei Navalny (1976–2024)Russian jurist and opposition leader
- Alexei Abrikosov (1928–2017)Soviet, Russian and American theoretical physicist
- Alexei I of Russia (1629–1676)Tsar of Russia
- Alexei Kosygin (1904–1980)Soviet politician
- Alexei Rykov (1881–1938)Premier of Russia and the Soviet Union
- Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia (1904–1918)Last Russian tsesarevich and heir apparent of the Russian Empire (1904–1918); youngest child of Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse)
- Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia (1690–1718)Russian Tsarevich
- Alexei Savrasov (1830–1897)Russian artist
People named Alexei with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Alexei is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Alexei is most concentrated in California (4.2×), Florida (3.2×), Texas (2.6×), New York (2.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2021
The most popular boys’ names the year Alexei peaked:
Alexei elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Alexei +1 spelling | 305 | 1,623rd |
| England and Wales boys | Alexei | 269 | 1,222nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Alexei among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Alexei | 150 | 229 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Alexei lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 643 men called Alexei were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Alexei | 43 | 0.081 | 1,067 |
| Cantabria | Alexei | 23 | 0.080 | 703 |
| Palmas, Las | Alexei | 34 | 0.058 | 1,392 |
| Bizkaia | Alexei | 33 | 0.058 | 969 |
| Navarra | Alexei | 18 | 0.053 | 1,149 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Alexei | 50 | 0.050 | 1,319 |
Listed in 25 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 27 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Alexei against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.