Given name

Alexya

Alexya is a feminine given name from Ancient Greek. It is used in French.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Alexya comes from Ancient Greek.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1993. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Alexya through the years

Babies since 1880
482
0 boys · 482 girls
Most popular year
2004
42 babies
2025
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2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
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Alexya in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1993–2025, per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2018. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 42 in 2004. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 405 as a first name in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Alexya’s family of names

Alexya may belong to the same name family as ALEXXYA. This is a tentative spelling connection.

Walk Alexya’s family in the name graph

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Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

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Nicknames & forms 2

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 1

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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