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How popular is “Alexa” in the USA?

Number of people named “Alexa” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Alexa” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Alexa” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Alexa” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Alexa” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Alexa” by birth year

This chart shows how “Alexa” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1916 5 0.000002585 5 100%
1917 5 0.000002492 5 100%
1921 6 0.00000257 6 100%
1923 5 0.000002172 5 100%
1924 5 0.000002099 5 100%
1925 10 0.000004286 10 100%
1926 6 0.000002613 6 100%
1927 6 0.000002587 6 100%
1928 7 0.000003096 7 100%
1931 5 0.000002376 5 100%
1935 5 0.000002392 5 100%
1937 7 0.000003285 7 100%
1941 6 0.000002463 6 100%
1942 8 0.000002928 8 100%
1943 6 0.000002126 6 100%
1944 16 0.000005948 16 100%
1945 20 0.000007539 20 100%
1946 24 0.000007511 24 100%
1947 46 0.00001277 46 100%
1948 48 0.000013903 48 100%
1949 45 0.000012913 45 100%
1950 38 0.000010847 38 100%
1951 55 0.00001493 55 100%
1952 52 0.000013691 52 100%
1953 39 0.00001012 39 100%
1954 33 0.00000829 33 100%
1955 41 0.000010212 41 100%
1956 33 0.000008004 33 100%
1957 53 0.000012613 53 100%
1958 39 0.000009434 39 100%
1959 26 0.000006253 26 100%
1960 34 0.000008185 34 100%
1961 36 0.000008691 36 100%
1962 47 0.000011647 47 100%
1963 34 0.00000859 34 100%
1964 31 0.000007974 31 100%
1965 28 0.000007723 28 100%
1966 32 0.000009207 32 100%
1967 46 0.00001355 46 100%
1968 79 0.000023384 79 100%
1969 75 0.000021581 75 100%
1970 86 0.000023846 86 100%
1971 68 0.000019811 68 100%
1972 92 0.000029271 92 100%
1973 152 0.000050383 152 100%
1974 213 0.000070066 213 100%
1975 211 0.000069882 211 100%
1976 202 0.000066572 202 100%
1977 189 0.0000595 189 100%
1978 175 0.000055138 175 100%
1979 176 0.000052901 176 100%
1980 179 0.000051967 179 100%
1981 222 0.000064173 222 100%
1982 216 0.000061574 216 100%
1983 219 0.000063234 219 100%
1984 214 0.00006134 208 6 94%
1985 200 0.000056036 200 100%
1986 503 0.000141408 498 5 98%
1987 830 0.000230197 821 9 98%
1988 925 0.000250335 918 7 98%
1989 1310 0.000340751 1305 5 99%
1990 2139 0.000541179 2131 8 99%
1991 2487 0.000638467 2476 11 99%
1992 2240 0.00058314 2234 6 99%
1993 3048 0.000808428 3037 11 99%
1994 3459 0.000930426 3441 18 99%
1995 3359 0.000917219 3359 100%
1996 3266 0.000895483 3260 6 100%
1997 3096 0.000853893 3090 6 100%
1998 3622 0.000984719 3622 100%
1999 3652 0.000988666 3644 8 100%
2000 3682 0.000974099 3674 8 100%
2001 3909 0.001044241 3898 11 99%
2002 4407 0.001178881 4401 6 100%
2003 4603 0.001210577 4597 6 100%
2004 4468 0.001169351 4440 28 99%
2005 4674 0.001215654 4664 10 100%
2006 6125 0.001548207 6117 8 100%
2007 5794 0.00144934 5785 9 100%
2008 5239 0.001332853 5226 13 100%
2009 5317 0.001391821 5310 7 100%
2010 5050 0.001366438 5043 7 100%
2011 4518 0.001235171 4510 8 100%
2012 4296 0.001174615 4296 100%
2013 4113 0.001128189 4106 7 100%
2014 4256 0.001148292 4249 7 100%
2015 6067 0.001639326 6053 14 100%
2016 4780 0.001302915 4775 5 100%
2017 3901 0.001090824 3896 5 100%
2018 3075 0.000874599 3067 8 99%
2019 2008 0.000578519 2002 6 99%
2020 1289 0.000385861 1284 5 99%
2021 708 0.000208976 708 100%
2022 577 0.000170552 577 100%
2023 492 0.000148587 492 100%
2024 348 0.000104552 348 100%

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