Lexington
The girl's name Lexington has been in the national records since 1987, with 2,340 births to its name. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 7,491st. About 2,300 Lexingtons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 10.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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Girls and boys called Lexington
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Lexington crossed from girls to boys in 2018, and has stayed there for 8 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 61% boys, and in 2025 it was 53%.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 30 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,340
- Estimated living today
- 2,300
- Median age today
- 10
- Peak year
- 2014
- Best rank
- 2,256th
- Rank in 2025
- 7,491st
- First recorded
- 1987
- Girls / boys
- 1,313 / 1,027
How old the living Lexingtons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,340 babies given the name since 1987, about 2,300 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 1,800 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2015 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Lexington is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Lexington is most concentrated in Texas (3.5×), Florida (2.3×), California (2.2×), New York (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2014
The most popular girls’ names the year Lexington peaked:
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Lexington against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.