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Alessio

#867 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Alexius

Alessio has been given to 2,372 babies in the U.S. since 1922. In 2025 it ranked #867 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 276 recorded.

Babies named Alessio, 2025

1 in 12,000

Alessio over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alessio: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Alexius

Ancient Greek

What Alessio means

Alessio is a form of Alexius.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Alessio → Alexius. The family’s meaning is “helper, defender”, recorded in English with the source elements Álexis.

Origin, language, and formation

Alessio is used in Italian. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alexius and Alexis.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Alessio is pronounced /aˈlɛs.sjo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,372 boys were recorded with the name Alessio between 1922 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 276 in 2025; its best national rank was #867 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,503 in 2020 to #867 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,486 in 2015 to #867 in 2025.

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 Alessio?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 12,000
276 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 6,190
0.02% of boys
Rank, 2025
#867
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
8,327 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alessio sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 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 5004%

Put another way: gather 8,327 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alessio. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alessios were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alessio was born before 2019 — so the typical Alessio is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
47.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
92.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,350
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Choose a decade

2020s — 47.4% of all recorded uses (1,124).

Is Alessio 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
+83
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+636
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,619
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
5.52×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (276)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#867
2025

Spellings of Alessio

Alessio is the most-used spelling, taking 71.5% of the 3,317 babies given a near-identical spelling.

  • Alessio71.5%2,372
  • Lessie28.5%945

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 Alessio is used

Across 2016–2025, Alessio was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 3,333 boys, against 1 in 9,552 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in 100,000).

130 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 3,333
  2. 2New York1 in 4,762
  3. 3Connecticut1 in 5,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 5,556
  5. 5Arizona1 in 7,692
  6. 6Colorado1 in 7,692
  7. 7California1 in 9,091
  8. 8New Mexico1 in 10,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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.

Alessio around the world

Where Alessio 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
    1996–2025
    #822
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2001–2024
    #619
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2000–2025
    #676
    in 2025
  • France
    1962–2025
    #64
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #441
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1974–2013
    #239
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Alessio

People whose public names include Alessio, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Alessio in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Alessio. Linked forms have their own page here.

AleixAlejoAleksiAleksyAlexeiAlexeyAleksejAlekseyAlexiusAleixoAlexejAleksijOleksiiAleksejs

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Alessio by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#867
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 636
Best rank ever
#867
2025
Peak year
2025
276 that year
First recorded
1922
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,372
Count in 2025
276

Names similar to Alessio

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

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Names with a curve like Alessio

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Alessio, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

KaleoTrueKnowledgeZenJasielColesonZakariBeauxKenaiTeoAshCartier

Sibling names for Alessio

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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