girls:
45.6k births since 1916
#621 (89th percentile)
boys:
44 births since 1980
#4542 (1st percentile)
overall:
45.7k births since 1916
#1141 (85th percentile)
The name Alexia is the #1,141 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 45,677 recorded births since 1916. This represents the 85.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 85.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #621 (89.1% percentile) for all time with 45,633 births since 1916. For boys, it ranks #4,542 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 44 births since 1980.
Alexia first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1916 (1916 for girls and 1980 for boys). Birth data for Alexia is available in 91 out of the 108 years between 1916 and 2023 (91 years for girls and 7 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 Alexia has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Alexia reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 86.2% percentile (ranked #130) with 1,214 births per million. The name was most common in 2002, with 1,363 births per million (ranked 85.9% percentile). Despite a low point in 2012, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for girls. Currently, Alexia ranks #626 for girls (33.9% percentile) with 194 births per million, which is 14.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Alexia reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #843) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2006.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alexia".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Alexia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 81.6% confident that Alexia is pronounced as uh-LEHK-see-uh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-LEHK-shuh, at 18.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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