Alexis

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Alexis boys named Alexis

Girls and boys called Alexis

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 344,557 girls and 68,075 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 547 to 584.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 84 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births

412,632

Estimated living today

404,000

Median age today

25

Peak year

1998

Best rank

6th

Rank in 2025

554th

First recorded

1882

Girls / boys

344,557 / 68,075

How old the living Alexises are

born that year still alive today

Of the 412,632 babies given the name since 1882, about 404,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 83,000 of them are children and 3,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2000 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.

Where the name comes from

Origin Ancient Greek

From French Alexis, from Latin Alexis, ultimately from Ancient Greek Ἄλεξις (“helper, defender”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Alexiss

• Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)French political thinker and historian, minister of Foreign Affairs
• Alexis Tsipras (born 1974)Prime Minister of Greece (2015; 2015–2019)
• Alexis Carrel (1873–1944)French surgeon and biologist
• Alexis Sánchez (born 1988)Chilean footballer
• Alexis Bledel (born 1981)American actress
• Alexis Mac Allister (born 1998)Argentine association football player
• Alexis Clairaut (1713–1765)French mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist (*1713 – †1765)
• Alexis Texas (born 1985)American pornographic actress

People named Alexis with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Alexis is most common

• CA57,926
• TX39,834
• NY23,716
• FL20,866
• IL19,389
• OH17,065
• PA16,656
• MI14,012
• GA12,542
• NJ10,855

Relative to how many babies each state records, Alexis is most concentrated in Nevada (2.4×), Arizona (2.0×), Delaware (1.6×), Florida (1.5×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1998

The most popular girls’ names the year Alexis peaked:

• Emily
• Hannah
• Samantha
• Sarah
• Ashley
• Alexis

All the names of 1998

Alexis elsewhere

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.

Alexis: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Alexis is most concentrated in Vaud, where 0.30% of children were given it – 508 of them.

Alexis: rank by region

In 2025, Alexis was given 5 times or more in 4 regions of Belgium.

In 2024, Alexis was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Alexis appears in the lists for Province of Walloon Brabant (39th), Province of Liège (133rd), Province of Hainaut (153rd) and Brussels-Capital Region (225th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Alexis by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Alexis 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.

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 Alexis lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 9,949 men called Alexis 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

Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Alexander
• Alex
• Alexandra
• Alejandro
• Alexa
• Alexandria
• Alec
• Alejandra
• Alexia
• Alessandra
• Alexus
• Aleah

Alexis against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Alexis vs Alexander
• Alexis vs Alex
• Alexis vs Alexandra
• Alexis vs Alejandro
• Alexis vs Alexa
• Alexis vs Alexandria

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