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Alix

#5,246 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Noble + character, through Alice

Alix has been given to 4,573 babies in the U.S. since 1934. In 2025 it ranked #5,246 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1993, with 163 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 78% girls, 22% boys all-time.

Babies named Alix, 2025

1 in 138,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

In 2025, Alix went to 69% girls and 31% boys.

19302025

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.

Alix: meaning, origin, and history

Noble + character, through Alice

Germanic languages

What Alix means

Alix belongs to the name family reached through Alix → Alice. Its meaning is “noble + character”.

Origin, language, and formation

Alix is used in English and French. Its origins include Germanic languages.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alice.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Alix is pronounced /ˈæ.lɪks/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,584 girls were recorded with the name Alix between 1934 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 163 in 1993; its best national rank was #1,102 in 1993.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,671 in 2020 to #5,246 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,993 in 2015 to #5,246 in 2025.

In the United States, 989 boys were recorded with the name Alix between 1930 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 43 in 1993; its best national rank was #1,902 in 1993.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,050 in 2020 to #7,214 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,510 in 2015 to #7,214 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 Alix?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 138,000
24 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 67,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,246
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
95,747 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alix 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 95,747 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alix. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alixs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alix was born before 1993 — so the typical Alix is around 32 today.

Median birth year
1993
About 32 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
34.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
27.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,375
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 34.5% of all recorded uses (1,235).

Is Alix 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
−680
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+425
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,253
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.65×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
14.7%
Peak was 1993 (163)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,102
1993

Spellings of Alix

Alix is not the most common spelling — Alice is, with 34.5% against Alix's 0.21%.

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 Alix is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Alix was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 102,195 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 25,000
  2. 2California1 in 33,333
  3. 3Washington1 in 50,000
  4. 4Arizona1 in 100,000
  5. 5Colorado1 in 100,000
  6. 6Florida1 in 100,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 100,000
  8. 8Louisiana1 in 100,000

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

Where Alix is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Alix was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 443,534 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3New York1 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. Alix has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Alix around the world

Where Alix 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
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1976–2023
    #482
    in 2023
  • Northern Ireland
    1997–2008
    #439
    in 2008
  • Ireland
    2000–2019
    #621
    in 2019
  • France
    1900–2025
    #37
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,542
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1959–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA 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 Alix

People whose public names include Alix, 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.

Alix in other languages

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

AlexAliceAlisa

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

Alix by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,246
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 425
Best rank ever
#1,102
1993
Peak year
1993
163 that year
First recorded
1934
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,584
Count in 2025
24

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,214
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 164
Best rank ever
#1,902
1993
Peak year
1993
43 that year
First recorded
1930
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
989
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Alix

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

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Names with a curve like Alix

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

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Sibling names for Alix

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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