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Lexa

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Lexa is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 19 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
190.00% of girls
Peak year
2017115 births
Best rank
never in the top 1,000
Since 1949
1,550people given the name
Babies named Lexa, by year of birthgirls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

1,550 girls have been named Lexa in the United States since 1949, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2017, with 115 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 2010, and the 2010s alone account for 39%.

By decade

Decadegirls named Lexa
1940s11
1950s41
1960s17
1970s24
1980s33
1990s222
2000s390
2010s598
2020s214

In 2017, its biggest year

Lexa was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2017 were Emma, Olivia, Ava, Isabella and Sophia. See all of 2017.

Names that rose and fell with Lexa

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.