Alexa
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Alexa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Short form of Alexandra or variant of pAlexis as a girl’s name.
- USUnited States1 in 2.9K(measured from records)
- HUHungary≈1 in 6.4K
- DEGermany≈1 in 14K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Alexa itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 482 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
115,935 people, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled אלכסה in LV Latvia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Short form of Alexandra or variant of pAlexis as a girl’s name.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Alexa counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 115,935 | 1 in 2.9K | 116K | Alexa | 482 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 8,439 | 1 in 2K | 8.4K | Alexa | 20 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Alexa | 159 |
| BR Brazil | — | 4,837 | 1 in 44K | 4.8K | — | 5 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Alexa | 95 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 1,998 | 1 in 2.6K | 2K | — | 1 |
| HU Hungary | #692 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | 125 | Alexa | 88 |
| LV Latvia | — | 522as Aleksa | 1 in 3.6K | 528 | אלכסה | 3 |
115,935 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INEC — civil registry names; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Nyilvántartó — Top-100 newborn names (2020–2024); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Alexa is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A female given name from Ancient Greek.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, weibl. Vom., Kurzform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
English: short form of ALEXANDRA or variant of ALEXIS as a female name.
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- María Cristina de Borbón y Battenbergb. 1911ESnot in their usual nameSpanish infanta, daughter of Alfonso XIII of Spain and Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg (1911–1996)
- Alejandra Guzmánb. 1968MXnot in their usual nameMexican musician
- Fairuza Balkb. 1974USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Alexa Havinsb. 1980USAmerican actress
- Alexa Davalosb. 1982FRFrench-American actress
- Alexa Chungb. 1983GBEnglish television presenter, model and contributing editor
- Alejandra Ambrosib. 1987MXnot in their usual nameMexican actress
- Alexa Vegab. 1988USAmerican actress
- Alexa Nikolasb. 1992USAmerican actress
- Alexa Daviesb. 1995GBWelsh actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 97 sources across 52 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 116K | #486 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 8.4K | #238 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 4.8K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 4.7K | #2,798 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 2K | #353 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 1.5K | #7,200 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 760 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 314 | #486 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 243 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 225 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 138 | #2,798 |
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 newborn names (2020–2024) | 2016 | 125 | #90 |
Reference works 5
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Alexa a male or female name?
- Alexa is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Alexa mean, and where does it come from?
- Short form of Alexandra or variant of pAlexis as a girl’s name. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What are other forms of the name Alexa?
- In the etymology graph, Ali, Sandra and Alejandra are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Alexa have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 116 thousand people named Alexa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alexa.
- Where is Alexa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Alexa is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 2.0 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Alexa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 115,935 people named Alexa in 2020, about 1 in 2.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Alexa compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Alexa is the 692nd most common given name of 18,528 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Alexa?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/alexaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Alexa” — the 692nd most common given name in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.