Name meaning & stats
Alexa
Alexa means “defender” (Ancient Greek origin). 131,763 US babies since 1940, peak 2006.
What it means
“defender”
Ancient GreekWell documented
In US birth records
Peak year: 2006
131,763 US babies were named Alexa between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Alexa (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
The most common spelling: 72% of the family
- Alexa 72%
- Alexia 25%
- Alexcia 1%
- Alexsa <1%
- Aleksa <1%
- Alexah <1%
- Alexya <1%
- Alexiah <1%
- Alexsia <1%
- Aleksia <1%
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2006)