Lexington
Lexington is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 29 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 290.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 201483 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1989
- 2,309people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,298 girls have been named Lexington in the United States since 1989, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2014, with 83 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2014, and the 2010s alone account for 53%.
Lexington is used for both sexes: 44% of its bearers are boys (1,011), most of them born around 2020.
By decade
In 2014, its biggest year
Lexington was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2014 were Emma, Olivia, Sophia, Isabella and Ava. See all of 2014.
Names that rose and fell with Lexington
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Malaysiapeak 2014
- Jurneepeak 2018
- Cambriepeak 2017
- Skylahpeak 2016
- Mckinleypeak 2014
- Skylarpeak 2015
- Annabethpeak 2014
- Kambripeak 2017
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.