Alyx
Alyx is a girl's name that peaked in 1993, when it was the 1,841st most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 10,917th. About 1,500 Alyxes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 24.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Alyx boys named Alyx
Girls and boys called Alyx
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 1,295 girls and 182 boys in all, and in 2022 the split was 17 to 8.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 33 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
- 1,477
- Estimated living today
- 1,500
- Median age today
- 24
- Peak year
- 1993
- Best rank
- 1,841st
- Rank in 2025
- 10,917th
- First recorded
- 1978
- Girls / boys
- 1,295 / 182
How old the living Alyxes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,477 babies given the name since 1978, about 1,500 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 500 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2001 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 Alyx is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Alyx is most concentrated in California (5.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1993
The most popular girls’ names the year Alyx peaked:
Alyx elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Alyx | 240 | 1,406th |
| England and Wales girls | Alyx | 197 | 897th |
| Scotland girls | Alyx | 115 | 321st |
| France boys | Alyx | 85 | 3,782nd |
| England and Wales boys | Alyx | 7 | 2,857th |
| Belgium girls | Alyx | 6 | 1,182nd |
| Ireland girls | Alyx | 3 | 677th |
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.
Alyx: rank by region
In 2023, Alyx was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Alyx | 431 | 6 |
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.
Related names
Alyx 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.