Alix
Alix reached its high-water mark in 1993 at number 1,104, and has been recorded 4,573 times in all. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 5,238th. About 4,300 Alixes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 31.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Alix boys named Alix
Girls and boys called Alix
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 3,584 girls and 989 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 24 to 11.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 51 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
- 4,573
- Estimated living today
- 4,300
- Median age today
- 31
- Peak year
- 1993
- Best rank
- 1,104th
- Rank in 2025
- 5,238th
- First recorded
- 1930
- Girls / boys
- 3,584 / 989
How old the living Alixes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 4,573 babies given the name since 1930, about 4,300 are alive — 95 in every hundred. Roughly 800 of them are children and 260 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1994 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 Germanic languages
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Alixs
- Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse) (1872–1918)Empress consort of Russia
- Alix, duchess of Brittany (1200–1221)Hereditary Duchess of Brittany 1203-1221, Breton noble
- Alix Didier Fils-Aimé (born 1971)Prime Minister of Haiti since 2024
- Princess Alix of Luxembourg (1929–2019)daughter of Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, and Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma
- Alix Klineman (born 1989)American beach volleyball player
- Alix Le Clerc (1576–1622)French founder of a religious order providing education to girls
- Alix of Brittany (1243–1288)Noblewoman
- Alix de Montmorency (1200–1221)daughter of Bouchard IV/V de Montmorency
People named Alix with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Alix is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Alix is most concentrated in Utah (4.2×), California (3.2×), New York (2.2×), Washington (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1993
The most popular girls’ names the year Alix peaked:
Alix elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Alix | 31,620 | 39th |
| France boys | Alix | 9,670 | 194th |
| Belgium girls | Alix | 3,283 | 25th |
| England and Wales girls | Alix | 913 | 331st |
| Switzerland girls | Alix | 641 | 151st |
| Scotland girls | Alix | 638 | 133rd |
| Belgium boys | Alix | 214 | 725th |
| England and Wales boys | Alix | 193 | 704th |
| Switzerland boys | Alix | 93 | 716th |
| Ireland girls | Alix | 50 | 335th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Alix | 34 | 238th |
| Scotland boys | Alix | 3 | 638th |
| Poland girls | Alix | 2 birth registrations | 766th |
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.
Alix: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Alix | 88 | 0.007% | 543rd |
| German boys | Switzerland | Alix | 12 | 0.001% | 1,285th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Alix | 553 | 0.127% | 33rd |
| French boys | Switzerland | Alix | 81 | 0.019% | 256th |
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, Alix is most concentrated in Neuchâtel, where 0.17% of children were given it – 61 of them.
Alix: rank by region
In 2025, Alix was given 5 times or more in 4 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Alix | 64 | 72 |
| Wallonia | Alix | 24 | 90 |
| Wallonia | Alix | 267 | 10 |
| Brussels | Alix | 31 | 22 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Alix appears in the lists for Province of Luxembourg (2nd), Province of Walloon Brabant (4th), Province of East Flanders (16th), Province of Namur (20th), Brussels-Capital Region (31st), Province of Hainaut (39th), Province of Liège (41st), Province of Flemish Brabant (65th), Province of Namur (78th), Province of West Flanders (103rd) and Province of Antwerp (149th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – 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.
Alix by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 2 | 552nd |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Alix 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 girls | Alix | 16 | 22 |
| Finland boys | Alix | — | 6 |
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.
Related names
Alix against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.