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Elex

About 776 American babies have been named Elex since 1888, most of them around 1916. In 2025 it ranked 12,008th. About 340 Elexes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 39.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 5 10 15 20 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Elex

By the numbers

Total US births
776
Estimated living today
340
Median age today
39
Peak year
1916
Best rank
1,594th
Rank in 2025
12,008th
First recorded
1888

How old the living Elexes are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 5 10 15 20 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 776 babies given the name since 1888, about 340 are alive — 43 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1986 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 Elex is most common

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

Names of 1916

The most popular boys’ names the year Elex peaked:

All the names of 1916

Related names

Elex 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.