Lexi

What Lexi means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Lexi yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #308 in 2015, #628 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Lexi?

US: Falling: down from #308 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #81 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2014, when 1,334 girls got the name (#241 that year). First in the US records in 1948.

How common

• About 1 in 3,464 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,979 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 1,118 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NV (0.76 per 1,000 girls), UT (0.64 per 1,000 girls), WA (0.62 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Lexi is #628 in the US and #337 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Lexi were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

Wiktionary only lists the UK pronunciation so far.

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Lexa28 US
• Lexy27 US
• Lexxi6 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

Spelling variants on Wiktionary

• Lexie
• Lexy
• Lexee

Listed as alternative forms on Wiktionary.

If you like Lexi

Girls

• Zoe#31Variant of Zoë, meaning “life”^*
• Ariana#128Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #46 in 2015, #128 in 2025
• Lilly#252Form of Lilian, possibly meaning “lily”^*
• Arianna#234Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #56 in 2015, #234 in 2025
• Sophia#5“wisdom”^*
• Chloe#23“young green shoot”^*

For a brother

• Gabriel#37Finnish, meaning “God is my strong man, God is my hero”^*
• Zander#396Diminutive of Alexander, meaning “to defend + man”^*
• Pierce#505Form of Peter, meaning “stone, rock”^*
• Xander#259Diminutive of Alexander, meaning “to defend + man”^*
• Damian#109“to tame”^*
• Damien#352Form of Damian, meaning “to tame”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Greek, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Lexi’s. Rank is US 2025.