Given name & surname
Bexley
“box tree”
Bexley is a feminine given name from Old English, meaning “box tree.”
Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Old English byxe (“box tree”), built from English box + -leigh (“lea”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2009. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Bexley through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 3,493
- 254 boys · 3,239 girls
- Most popular year
- 2021
- 409 babies
- 2025
- 282
- #963 for girls · #6,182 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −4%
- Steady
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 268 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 963 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 3.4% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. It also appeared in 14 birth records for boys in 2025. In 2025, Ohio had the largest reported state-level birth count for girls with this name (30). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 401 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Bexley’s family of names
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Appears in
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