Name Awesome

Alexes

UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Alexes has been given to 839 babies in the U.S. since 1976. 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 1994, with 53 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 83% girls, 17% boys all-time.

Babies named Alexes, 2011

1 in 366,000

Alexes over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Alexes over time

In 2011, Alexes went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

19762011

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.

Alexes: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Alexes means

Alexes is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Alexes is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 700 girls were recorded with the name Alexes between 1976 and 2011. Its highest annual count was 53 in 1994; its best national rank was #2,408 in 1994.

In the United States, 139 boys were recorded with the name Alexes between 1993 and 2009. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2000; its best national rank was #4,671 in 1997.

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 Alexes?

Alexes had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2011
1 in 366,000
10 of 3,657,935 births
Among girls only
1 in 176,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2011
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
253,550 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alexes 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 2011 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 253,550 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alexes. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alexess were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alexes was born before 1998 — so the typical Alexes is around 27 today.

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
52.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
700
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 52.7% of all recorded uses (369).

Is Alexes 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 1994 (53)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,408
1994

Spellings of Alexes

Alexes is not the most common spelling — Alexis is, with 57.8% against Alexes's 0.12%.

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 Alexes is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Alexes was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 459,987 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Ohio1 in —
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 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. Alexes has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Alexes is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Alexes was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,089,544 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

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. Alexes has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Alexes around the world

Where Alexes 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.

  • South Australia
    1972–1972
    #479
    in 1972

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Alexes 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
#2,408
1994
Peak year
1994
53 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2011
All-time count
700
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,671
1997
Peak year
2000
14 that year
First recorded
1993
Last recorded
2009
All-time count
139
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Alexes

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

AleighAleesaAlessiAleiahAleahaAlennaAleanaAleinaAleiyaAleyzaAlettaAleisaAleeyaAleezaAleeahAlexieAleyshaAleeaAleydaAleiyahAleesiaAleriaAleidaAlenah

Sibling names for Alexes

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

Explore around Alexes

Top names of 1994, Alexes's peak yearThe 1990s in fullOther names that peaked in 1994Girls' names starting with A