Alex
Alex is ranked 205th among boys in 2024 (1,722 births). Its best rank was 47th, in 1995.
- Rank in 2024
- #205down 2 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 1,7220.10% of boys
- Peak year
- 19937,641 births
- Best rank
- #47in 1995
- Since 1880
- 294,382people given the name
The story in the numbers
284,633 boys have been named Alex in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1993, with 7,641 births — 0.39% of all boys recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 128 → 205).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1994, and the 1990s alone account for 25%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 33 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 9,749 girls have also been given it, 3.3% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Alex | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 1,451 | |
| 1890s | 1,448 | |
| 1900s | 1,745 | |
| 1910s | 7,871 | |
| 1920s | 9,182 | |
| 1930s | 6,306 | |
| 1940s | 6,855 | |
| 1950s | 8,200 | |
| 1960s | 12,031 | |
| 1970s | 14,004 | |
| 1980s | 38,711 | |
| 1990s | 70,832 | |
| 2000s | 63,779 | |
| 2010s | 32,591 | |
| 2020s | 9,627 |
In 1993, its biggest year
Alex was the 52nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1993 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Tyler. See all of 1993.
Names that rose and fell with Alex
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Bricepeak 1989
- Spencerpeak 1998
- Jakepeak 2004
- Grantpeak 1997
- Nathanielpeak 2002
- Alexanderpeak 1993
- Nestorpeak 1991
- Saulpeak 2006
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.