Alex
The 2025 national count puts Alex at #232, with the crowd thinning around it. On the books since 1880, peaking in 1993: 286,169 American children so far.
Alex’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Alex, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Alex since 1880
Alex peaked in 1993 at #52; #232 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Alex is most common
Alex is most common in Rhode Island: 0.26% of the state's recorded boys' names in 2025. District of Columbia (0.2%) and Florida (0.16%) follow.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Alex
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Andrea
#235 in 2025 · Greek
Ana
#245 in 2025 · Hebrew
Andres
#200 in 2025 · Greek
Ashton
#197 in 2025
Ashley
#164 in 2025
Austin
#113 in 2025 · Latin
Adam
#101 in 2025 · Hebrew
Autumn
#88 in 2025
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About Alex
How popular is the name Alex?
The 2025 national count puts Alex at #232, with the crowd thinning around it. The chart above draws the whole run since 1880, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
What is the recorded meaning of Alex?
No recorded meaning in the references we are allowed to cite, Alex keeps its mystery, and we keep our sourcing rule.
What names go with Alex?
On origin, era, syllables and first letter, Andrea sits closest, with Ana and Andres just behind. Give the matcher the names already in the house and it scores the whole top thousand against them.
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