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Alexa vs Alexandro

American parents have registered 131,835 Alexas since 1880, against 6,998 Alexandros. Alexa is still ahead, with 243 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Alexa against Alexandro, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Alexa Alexandro

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 103 years in which either name was published, Alexa for 93 years and Alexandro for 10 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Alexa Alexandro
Total US births 131,8356,998
Most in one year 6,125261
Babies in 2025 24349
Estimated living today 130,0006,600
Median age today 1924
Peak year 20062004
Best rank 39th girls728th boys
Rank in 2025 1,029th2,641st
First recorded 19161919
Girls / boys 131,551 / 2840 / 6,998

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Alexandros alive today are over 24; half the Alexas are over 19. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Alexa Alexandro
England and Wales 4,17670
France 2,110680
Italy 262758
Belgium 201133

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Alexa and Alexandro.