Alexa
Alexa is ranked 806th among girls in 2024 (348 births). Its best rank was 32nd, in 2015.
- Rank in 2024
- #806down 202 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 3480.02% of girls
- Peak year
- 20066,117 births
- Best rank
- #32in 2015
- Since 1916
- 131,304people given the name
The story in the numbers
131,304 girls have been named Alexa in the United States since 1916, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2006, with 6,117 births — 0.32% of all girls recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 64 → 806).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2006, and the 2000s alone account for 37%. It has spent 52 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 24 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Alexa | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 10 | |
| 1920s | 45 | |
| 1930s | 17 | |
| 1940s | 219 | |
| 1950s | 409 | |
| 1960s | 442 | |
| 1970s | 1,564 | |
| 1980s | 4,786 | |
| 1990s | 30,294 | |
| 2000s | 48,112 | |
| 2010s | 41,997 | |
| 2020s | 3,409 |
In 2006, its biggest year
Alexa was the 39th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2006 were Emily, Emma, Madison, Isabella and Ava. See all of 2006.
Names that rose and fell with Alexa
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Kaileighpeak 2004
- Alizabethpeak 2007
- Caileighpeak 2008
- Karleepeak 2008
- Kyliepeak 2003
- Emileighpeak 2005
- Carleepeak 2009
- Kaylynnpeak 2009
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.