girls:
27.1k births since 1948
#865 (85th percentile)
overall:
27.1k births since 1948
#1543 (80th percentile)
The name Lexi is the #1,543 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 27,100 recorded births since 1948. This represents the 80.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 80.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #865 (84.9% percentile) for all time with 27,100 births since 1948.
Lexi first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1948 (first recorded for girls in 1948). Birth data for Lexi is available in 61 out of the 76 years between 1948 and 2023. 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.
For girls, Lexi reached its peak popularity in 2014, achieving the 75.6% percentile (ranked #237) with 682 births per million. The name was most common in 2014, with 682 births per million (ranked 75.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2014, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Lexi ranks #462 for girls (51.3% percentile) with 332 births per million, which is 48.6% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lexi".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Lexi. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Lexi is pronounced as LEHK-see, which has 2 syllables.
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