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Boy's name · #232 in the US (2025) · 90s wave
94% boys · 6% girls — Alex is also given to girls: 71 in 2025, about 1 in 18 in recent years. Alex →
Alex reached #47 in 1995 and has eased to #232 since. About 286,000 boys have carried it since 1880. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 46 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#17 in Slovakia (2025, through 10 Dec 2025) · #23 in Spain (2024) · #37 in Hungary (2025) · #37 in Ireland (2025) · #50 in Czechia (2025) · #64 in Ecuador (2025) · #75 in Italy (2024) · #88 in Poland (2025) · #118 in Slovenia (2025) · #122 in Puerto Rico (2025) · #134 in Switzerland (2025) · #159 in N. Ireland (2025) and 16 more.
Among 6,900 notable people named Alex:
Sports figures appear 2.02× more often than among typical names — e.g. Alex Ferguson, Scottish football manager (born 1941).
Similar names: Alec · Seth · Alexis · Jake · Nicholas · Andre
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