Lex
Lex is a boy's name that peaked in 2012, when it was the 1,637th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 2,304th. About 3,200 Lexes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 19.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Lex boys named Lex
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 4,010
- Estimated living today
- 3,200
- Median age today
- 19
- Peak year
- 2012
- Best rank
- 1,637th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,304th
- First recorded
- 1892
- Girls / boys
- 15 / 3,995
How old the living Lexes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 4,010 babies given the name since 1892, about 3,200 are alive — 80 in every hundred. Roughly 1,400 of them are children and 490 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2006 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 Lexs
- Lex Barker (1919–1973)American actor
- Lex Luger (born 1958)American professional wrestler
- Lex Fridman (born 1983)American computer scientist and podcaster
- Lex Immers (born 1986)Dutch footballer
- Lex Mullink (born 1944)Dutch rower
- Lex Schoenmaker (born 1947)Dutch footballer and manager
- Lex Lang (born 1965)American voice actor
People named Lex with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Lex is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Lex is most concentrated in California (3.8×), Texas (3.6×), Florida (2.9×), Indiana (0.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2012
The most popular boys’ names the year Lex peaked:
Lex elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium boys | Lex | 1,213 | 133rd |
| England and Wales boys | Lex | 404 | 1,082nd |
| Scotland boys | Lex | 29 | 400th |
| France boys | Lex | 25 | 5,954th |
| Ireland boys | Lex | 3 | 749th |
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.
Lex: rank by region
In 2025, Lex was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Lex | 188 | 31 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Lex appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (106th), Province of West Flanders (178th), Province of Flemish Brabant (218th) and Province of East Flanders (264th).
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.
Lex 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Lex | 2,497 | 2,740 |
| Finland boys | Lex | 20 | 30 |
| the Netherlands girls | Lex | 6 | 12 |
| Finland girls | Lex | — | 5 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, 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
Lex 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.