# Alexei (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/alexei/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /əˈlɛkseɪ/, 3 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 1,486 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,369 / 117 (8% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 269, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 9 | 9,056 |
| 1998 | 12 | 7,555 |
| 1999 | 7 | 11,433 |
| 2000 | 6 | 13,226 |
| 2001 | 5 | 15,451 |
| 2002 | 8 | 11,158 |
| 2003 | 5 | 15,886 |
| 2004 | 8 | 11,671 |
| 2007 | 6 | 15,594 |
| 2008 | 5 | 17,646 |
| 2010 | 7 | 13,524 |
| 2011 | 5 | 16,899 |
| 2015 | 6 | 14,588 |
| 2021 | 5 | 15,393 |
| 2022 | 6 | 13,689 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 29 | 3,609 |
| 2012 | 25 | 4,006 |
| 2013 | 32 | 3,341 |
| 2014 | 35 | 3,155 |
| 2015 | 39 | 2,968 |
| 2016 | 34 | 3,296 |
| 2017 | 37 | 3,127 |
| 2018 | 37 | 3,107 |
| 2019 | 47 | 2,696 |
| 2020 | 41 | 2,887 |
| 2021 | 51 | 2,552 |
| 2022 | 45 | 2,832 |
| 2023 | 34 | 3,419 |
| 2024 | 47 | 2,752 |
| 2025 | 36 | 3,245 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 11 | 1,909 |
| 2012 | 10 | 2,117 |
| 2013 | 11 | 1,920 |
| 2014 | 7 | 2,690 |
| 2015 | 7 | 2,707 |
| 2016 | 12 | 1,903 |
| 2017 | 7 | 2,734 |
| 2018 | 6 | 3,011 |
| 2019 | 9 | 2,266 |
| 2020 | 7 | 2,682 |
| 2021 | 7 | 2,730 |
| 2022 | 8 | 2,529 |
| 2023 | 8 | 2,546 |
| 2024 | 13 | 1,859 |
| 2025 | 9 | 2,440 |

## People named Alexei

- Alexei Popyrin, Australian tennis player (born 1999)
- Alexei Panshin, American writer and critic (1940–2022)
- Alexei Ramírez, baseball player
- Alexei Sayle, English comedian
- Alexei Bell, baseball player
- Lex Fridman, American computer scientist and podcaster
- Aleksei Grishin, Belarusian freestyle skier

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.