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Aleksa

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Defender, through Aleksejus

Aleksa has been given to 602 babies in the U.S. since 1988. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2007, with 37 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 90% girls, 10% boys all-time.

Babies named Aleksa, 2018

1 in 440,000

Aleksa over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Aleksa over time

In 2023, Aleksa went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19882023

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Aleksa: meaning, origin, and history

Defender, through Aleksejus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Aleksa means

Aleksa belongs to the name family reached through Aleksa → Aleksejus. Its meaning is “defender”.

Origin, language, and formation

Aleksa is used in Lithuanian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Aleksejus.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Lithuanian, Aleksa is pronounced [ɐlʲɛkˈsɐ].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 540 girls were recorded with the name Aleksa between 1988 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 37 in 2007; its best national rank was #4,135 in 2007.

In the United States, 62 boys were recorded with the name Aleksa between 1999 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2005; its best national rank was #8,319 in 2005.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Aleksa?

Aleksa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018
1 in 440,000
8 of 3,516,853 births
Among girls only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
304,713 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aleksa sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2018 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 304,713 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aleksa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aleksas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aleksa was born before 2006 — so the typical Aleksa is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
49.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
540
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 49.4% of all recorded uses (267).

Is Aleksa rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2007 (37)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
43.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,135
2007

Spellings of Aleksa

Aleksa is not the most common spelling — Alyssa is, with 43.1% against Aleksa's 0.07%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Aleksa is used

Across 1910–2025, Aleksa was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 523,957 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Aleksa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Aleksa around the world

Where Aleksa ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2009–2019
    #3,151
    in 2019
  • Ireland
    2013–2018
    #896
    in 2018
  • Canada
    2005–2017
    #2,944
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1991–1991
    #669
    in 1991

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Aleksa by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,135
2007
Peak year
2007
37 that year
First recorded
1988
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
540
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,319
2005
Peak year
2005
8 that year
First recorded
1999
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
62
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Aleksa

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Aleksa

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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