first name
ALEX
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 373,467 people named Alex, 52.9% reported their origin as White, 31.3% as Hispanic or Latino and 6.2% as Asian or Pacific Islander. 93.9% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Alex peaked in 1993, when 8,064 babies got the name.
At least 295,991 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Alex by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #93. The largest share of babies named Alex, 33.9%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Alex is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Alex has been most common in Nevada (1.8×), Arizona (1.7×), and New Mexico (1.5×), and least common in West Virginia (0.57×).
285,923 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Either side of Alex
Spelled almost the same
8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Alex, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Alex ranks #6,544 of 156,621, with 4,984 people. See Alex as a last name
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