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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Lex

Recorded for both sexesMillennial

2025 rank

#2,322

down −100 places

2025 births

60

down −5 births

All-time births

3,995

2% of them in 2025

More common than

95%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
2012
94 births
Best rank
#913
in 1956
First recorded
1892
#1,175 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1985
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
120 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 201294#1,649Peak
  2. 200793#1,654
  3. 202193#1,743
  4. 201791#1,722
  5. 200690#1,613

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #913 in 1956 · peak births 94 in 2012

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 100% boys■ 0% girls

3,995 boys · 15 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Lex has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.