Alex
12
Babies in 2024
-59%
10-year change
1996
Peak · 274
+20%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Alex
Alex peaked among UK girls' names in the late 1990s (274 babies in 1996) and has remained in active use — 12 girls were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Alex reached its peak in 1996, when 274 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #161 for UK girls that year. Today's count of 12 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 3,124 girls have been officially registered with the name Alex in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 212 girls were registered with the name, starting from 29 in 2014 and ending at 12 in 2024.