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Alexis

Unisex name · Millennial-era

Living in the US
~405,100 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#554 among girls
Births in 2025
1,131 412,632 since 1880
Typical age
25 years, median

Alexis popularity over time

Alexis rank by birth year, 1931–2025Alexis ranked #4,331 in 1931 and #554 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #3, in 1999.#10#100#1,000#554best #3 in 199919401960198020002020
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1931–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

Alexis was used most in 1998, when 22,095 babies were given the name. It first clears the SSA reporting threshold in 1882. Alexis has spent 31 years inside the national top 100.

The 2025 position is #554, on 1,131 births. Compared with 2015, births are down 74%. It slipped 53 places against the previous year.

Babies named Alexis per yearPeaks at 22,095 births in 1998.22,095 in 1998018901920195019802010
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Alexis?

Roughly 405,100 Alexiss are alive in the US right now. That is out of 412,632 recorded births since 1880. The split is about 339,100 women and 66,000 men.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Alexis?

The typical living Alexis is 25 years old. The 2000s produced the largest surviving cohort. By the site’s era rules that makes Alexis a millennial-era name.

Your Alexis

Ages of living people named AlexisHalf of living Alexiss are older than 25 and half younger.median 25020406080100
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where Alexis is most common

The name is concentrated in Nevada, at 1.7× the national rate. Arizona, New Mexico and California follow.

Where Alexis is used more than average5 states use the name Alexis more than the national average.Alaska: not over-representedAKMaine: not over-representedMEVermont: not over-representedVTNew Hampshire: not over-representedNHWashington: not over-representedWAIdaho: not over-representedIDMontana: not over-representedMTNorth Dakota: not over-representedNDMinnesota: not over-representedMNIllinois: not over-representedILWisconsin: not over-representedWIMichigan: not over-representedMINew York: not over-representedNYOregon: not over-representedORNevada: 1.7× the national rateNVWyoming: not over-representedWYSouth Dakota: not over-representedSDIowa: not over-representedIAIndiana: not over-representedINOhio: not over-representedOHPennsylvania: not over-representedPANew Jersey: not over-representedNJConnecticut: not over-representedCTRhode Island: not over-representedRICalifornia: 1.5× the national rateCAUtah: not over-representedUTColorado: not over-representedCONebraska: not over-representedNEMissouri: not over-representedMOKentucky: not over-representedKYWest Virginia: not over-representedWVVirginia: not over-representedVAMaryland: not over-representedMDDelaware: not over-representedDEMassachusetts: not over-representedMAArizona: 1.6× the national rateAZNew Mexico: 1.5× the national rateNMKansas: not over-representedKSArkansas: not over-representedARTennessee: not over-representedTNNorth Carolina: not over-representedNCSouth Carolina: not over-representedSCDistrict of Columbia: not over-representedDCOklahoma: not over-representedOKLouisiana: not over-representedLAMississippi: not over-representedMSAlabama: not over-representedALGeorgia: not over-representedGAHawaii: not over-representedHITexas: 1.4× the national rateTXFlorida: not over-representedFL
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Alexis is over-represented, 2016–2025. The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.
StateBirthsvs national rate
Nevada 213 1.7×
Arizona 547 1.6×
New Mexico 105 1.5×
California 3,092 1.5×
Texas 2,571 1.4×

Is Alexis a boy's or a girl's name?

84% girls16% boys
Share of all recorded US births under this name, 1880 to the latest year.

Alexis is genuinely unisex: over the last decade the split is close to even. Across the whole record, 83.5% of births under the name were girls. The dominant sex is not the same at the end of the record as at the start.

Alexis in England and Wales

In England and Wales, Alexis ranked #997 in 2025 on 52 births. That is 44% lower than five years earlier.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Where the name Alexis comes from

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

Etymology summarised from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wiktionary entry.

Notable people named Alexis

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Alexis de Tocqueville French political thinker and historian, minister of Foreign Affairs 1805–1859 115
Alexis Tsipras Prime Minister of Greece (2015; 2015–2019) 1974 95
Alexis Carrel French surgeon and biologist 1873–1944 85
Alexis Sánchez Chilean footballer 1988 73
Alexis Bledel American actress 1981 63
Alexis Mac Allister Argentine association football player 1998 56
Alexis Clairaut French mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist (*1713 – †1765) 1713–1765 52
Alexis Texas American pornographic actress (b. 1985) 1985 47
Photo credits (7)

The sharpest rise. Births under this name jumped from 1,989 in 1981 to 3,883 in 1982 — 2.0 times over in a single year.

Birth records contain the rise and nothing about its cause. This site does not supply one.

People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

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