girls:
130.9k births since 1916
#306 (95th percentile)
boys:
284 births since 1984
#4302 (6th percentile)
overall:
131.2k births since 1916
#568 (93rd percentile)
The name Alexa is the #568 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 131,230 recorded births since 1916. This represents the 92.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 92.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #306 (94.7% percentile) for all time with 130,946 births since 1916. For boys, it ranks #4,302 (6.1% percentile) for all time with 284 births since 1984.
Alexa first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1916 (1916 for girls and 1984 for boys). Birth data for Alexa is available in 95 out of the 108 years between 1916 and 2023 (95 years for girls and 33 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Alexa has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Alexa reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 96.8% percentile (ranked #32) with 3,103 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 3,103 births per million (ranked 96.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2016, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Alexa ranks #513 for girls (45.9% percentile) with 280 births per million, which is 9.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Alexa reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 2.7% percentile (ranked #824) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 13 births per million (ranked 2.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alexa".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Alexa. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 87.0% confident that Alexa is pronounced as uh-LEHK-suh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-LEHG-zuh, at 13.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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