Is Alex a male or female name?
Alex is predominantly associated with male records in the available name data. Without a country hint, NameGender returns male at 96%, based on 471,226 observations.
Result without a country hint
This is the response used when the request does not supply a country. It is a fallback, not a claim that every country has the same distribution.
- Association
- male
- Probability
- 96%
- Sample size
- 471,226
- Confidence
- high
Alex by country
Only sources that publish observation counts appear in this table. The probability is the dominant-gender share within that country source; sample sizes from different countries cover different years and should not be treated as population rankings.
| Country | Association | Probability | Sample | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States US | male | 97% | 294,273 | ssa |
| Spain ES | male | 99% | 53,623 | ine |
| England and Wales GB | male | 89% | 40,772 | ons |
| France FR | male | 98% | 32,600 | insee |
| Canada CA | male | 93% | 19,466 | statcan |
| Poland PL | male | 99% | 12,145 | pesel |
| Ireland IE | male | 91% | 9,754 | cso |
| Switzerland CH | male | 99% | 6,479 | bfs |
| Norway NO | male | 100% | 1,121 | ssb |
| Austria AT | male | 99% | 993 | statat |
Attested in 76 countries and territories
Presence means the name appears in a source for that country. Sources without counts cannot support a popularity share.
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Alex over time
In the United States, 0% of the babies named Alex in the 1880s were girls, against 6.2% in the 2020s. In France, 4.8% of the babies named Alex in the 1910s were girls, against 4% in the 2020s.
| Decade of birth | United States: girls | Babies | France: girls | Babies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 0% | 1,451 | — | |
| 1890s | 0% | 1,448 | — | |
| 1900s | 0% | 1,745 | — | |
| 1910s | 0% | 7,910 | 5% | 105 |
| 1920s | 1% | 9,277 | 2% | 270 |
| 1930s | 1% | 6,372 | 5% | 540 |
| 1940s | 1% | 6,911 | 1% | 1,500 |
| 1950s | 1% | 8,297 | 1% | 3,140 |
| 1960s | 1% | 12,171 | 0% | 2,970 |
| 1970s | 1% | 14,211 | 0% | 1,550 |
| 1980s | 3% | 39,886 | 1% | 1,600 |
| 1990s | 5% | 74,283 | 2% | 7,205 |
| 2000s | 3% | 65,905 | 4% | 8,090 |
| 2010s | 5% | 34,173 | 2% | 4,280 |
| 2020s | 6% | 10,233 | 4% | 1,255 |
Births per decade from the US Social Security Administration (1880–2024) and INSEE (France, 1900–2025); decades with fewer than 100 babies are left out. See boys' names that became girls' names and French names that changed sex.
Look up Alex with a country
Send a reliable two-letter country code when you have one. Preserve probability, sample size, confidence and source with the category.
curl "https://namegender.com/api/v1/gender?name=Alex&country=US" \
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Method and limits
Counted rows come from national registration sources that publish male and female totals. The attested-country list also includes sources that confirm presence but do not publish a sample size. Those two evidence types are kept separate.
Name data describes a population-level association. It does not identify an individual person's gender. Preserve unknown and low-confidence results, and do not use name inference for employment, medical, financial, insurance, legal or eligibility decisions.
Data version: 2026.10. Read the benchmark methodology and database provenance before applying a threshold.
Questions about Alex
Is Alex a male or female name?
Alex is predominantly associated with male records in the available name data. Without a country hint, NameGender returns male at 96%, based on 471,226 observations.
Why can the result for Alex change by country?
A name can have different observed distributions in different populations. A country hint narrows the evidence used by the API instead of treating one global result as universal.
Does the name Alex identify a person's gender?
No. This page describes statistical associations in name records. It cannot identify an individual person and should not be used for consequential decisions.