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Alexus

#9,481 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Alexis

Alexus has been given to 18,875 babies in the U.S. since 1982. In 2025 it ranked #9,481 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1996, with 1,703 recorded.

Babies named Alexus, 2025

1 in 332,000

Alexus over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
05001K1.5K2K18801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alexus: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Alexis

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Alexus means

Alexus is a variant of Alexis.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alexis.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 18,632 girls were recorded with the name Alexus between 1982 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 1,703 in 1996; its best national rank was #178 in 1996.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,884 in 2020 to #9,481 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,211 in 2015 to #9,481 in 2025.

In the United States, 243 boys were recorded with the name Alexus between 1981 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 21 in 1998; its best national rank was #3,365 in 1993.

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 Alexus?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 161,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,481
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alexus 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 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alexus. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alexuss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alexus was born before 1999 — so the typical Alexus is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
54.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
38.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
18,632
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Choose a decade

1990s — 54.4% of all recorded uses (10,129).

Is Alexus 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
−3,678
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−4,597
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−7,270
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.12×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
0.59%
Peak was 1996 (1,703)
Years since peak
29
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#178
1996

Spellings of Alexus

Alexus is not the most common spelling — Alexis is, with 59.1% against Alexus's 3.2%.

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 Alexus is used

Across 1910–2025, Alexus was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 4,762 girls, against 1 in 9,112 across all states with data. It was least common in South Dakota (1 in 100,000).

121 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 4,762
  2. 2Nevada1 in 5,000
  3. 3South Carolina1 in 5,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 5,263
  5. 5Mississippi1 in 5,263
  6. 6Tennessee1 in 5,263
  7. 7Alabama1 in 5,882
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 5,882

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

Alexus around the world

Where Alexus 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
    2000–2017
    #2,706
    in 2017
  • Canada
    1995–2015
    #3,185
    in 2015
  • South Australia
    2003–2013
    #536
    in 2013

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

Notable people named Alexus

People whose public names include Alexus, 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.

Alexus by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,481
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 4,597
Best rank ever
#178
1996
Peak year
1996
1,703 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
18,632
Count in 2025
10

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,365
1993
Peak year
1998
21 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
243
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Alexus

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

AleenaAleciaAleahAlenaAleshaAlesiaAlexiaAlessiaAlexysAleneAletaAlessaAleynaAleyahAlexxusAletheaAleighaAlexAleidaAlexiAlethaAleydaAlexieAleia

Names with a curve like Alexus

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

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Sibling names for Alexus

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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