Alexah
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Alexah has been given to 540 babies in the U.S. since 1993. 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 2009, with 40 recorded.
Babies named Alexah, 2019
1 in 694,000
Alexah over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Alexah?
Alexah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2019
- 1 in 694,000
- 5 of 3,472,229 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 336,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2019
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 481,354 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Alexah sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 481,354 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alexah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Alexahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Alexah was born before 2009 — so the typical Alexah is around 16 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 45.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 97.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 540
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 45.0% of all recorded uses (243).
Is Alexah 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
- —
- 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 2009 (40)
- Years since peak
- 16
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.4% average annual change
Spellings of Alexah
Alexah is not the most common spelling — Alexis is, with 34.6% against Alexah's 0.05%.
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 Alexah is used
Across 1910–2025, Alexah was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 362,740 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 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. Alexah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Alexah around the world
Where Alexah 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 & Wales2014–2017#3,583in 2017
- Canada2008–2008#3,151in 2008
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Alexah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Alexah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Alexah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.