girls:
117 births since 1993
#5599 (2nd percentile)
boys:
1.3k births since 1961
#3327 (27th percentile)
overall:
1.4k births since 1961
#6340 (18th percentile)
The name Alexei is the #6,340 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,403 recorded births since 1961. This represents the 18.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 18.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,327 (27.4% percentile) for all time with 1,286 births since 1961. For girls, it ranks #5,599 (2.0% percentile) for all time with 117 births since 1993.
Alexei first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1961 (1961 for boys and 1993 for girls). Birth data for Alexei is available in 55 out of the 63 years between 1961 and 2023 (55 years for boys and 17 years for girls). 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 Alexei has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 91.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Alexei reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 5.3% percentile (ranked #771) with 23 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 27 births per million (ranked 5.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2013, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Alexei ranks #882 for boys (3.2% percentile) with 19 births per million, which is 68.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Alexei reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #867) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alexei".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Alexei. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 61.7% confident that Alexei is pronounced as uh-LEHK-say, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-LEHK-SAY, at 29.8% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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