Name Generator

How popular is the name Lexi?

Births per year, rank history and how many Lexis are alive today.

Lexi (female), once a common girls' name, is now an uncommon choice for new babies in England and Wales, ranked 337th in 2025 with 128 given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 2010, when 1,408 babies were given the name, the 46th most popular that year. It has declined since 2010; the 2025 figure is roughly 9% of its peak. Numbers have been falling in recent years. At least 13,000 babies have been named Lexi in England and Wales since 1997. Lexi is one spelling of a name also recorded as Lexie; the combined figures below cover every spelling. Common short forms of Lexi include Alex and Alix. Lexi is also a common short form of Alexandra, so many people called Lexi are registered under the longer name.

Across all spellings of the name, the Lexi you are most likely to meet is around 16 years old. Half of all Lexis born in England and Wales are between 11 and 17, and there are at least 20,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 6.2% chance that at least one of them will be called Lexi.

How many babies are named Lexi each year?

Includes all spellings: Lexi, Lexie. Figures before 1996 are estimates.

Where does the Lexi spelling rank?

Where does the Lexie spelling rank?

Where this data comes from

Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.

One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.