Is Alexis a male or female name?
Alexis is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 84% and male usage in France at 100%. Country context changes the answer.
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
- female
- Probability
- 60%
- Sample size
- 614,210
- Confidence
- high
Alexis 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 | female | 84% | 411,321 | ssa |
| France FR | male | 100% | 150,945 | insee |
| Canada CA | male | 55% | 30,072 | statcan |
| Spain ES | male | 100% | 9,949 | ine |
| England and Wales GB | female | 92% | 7,776 | ons |
| Switzerland CH | male | 97% | 3,341 | bfs |
| Poland PL | male | 70% | 381 | pesel |
| Ireland IE | female | 91% | 301 | cso |
| Austria AT | male | 60% | 124 | statat |
Attested in 84 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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Alexis over time
In the United States, 0% of the babies named Alexis in the 1910s were girls, against 56.4% in the 2020s. The name has changed sides over time, so the answer depends on when a person was born. In France, 0% of the babies named Alexis in the 1900s were girls, against 1.5% in the 2020s.
| Decade of birth | United States: girls | Babies | France: girls | Babies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | — | 0% | 4,160 | |
| 1910s | 0% | 126 | 1% | 3,315 |
| 1920s | 0% | 139 | 1% | 3,625 |
| 1930s | — | 1% | 2,235 | |
| 1940s | 90% | 1,476 | 2% | 1,315 |
| 1950s | 86% | 2,360 | 3% | 1,160 |
| 1960s | 64% | 2,619 | 0% | 2,615 |
| 1970s | 75% | 8,065 | 0% | 7,320 |
| 1980s | 84% | 31,368 | 0% | 18,695 |
| 1990s | 89% | 147,448 | 0% | 49,270 |
| 2000s | 82% | 158,827 | 0% | 39,675 |
| 2010s | 78% | 51,449 | 0% | 15,220 |
| 2020s | 56% | 7,324 | 2% | 2,340 |
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 Alexis 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=Alexis&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 Alexis
Is Alexis a male or female name?
Alexis is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 84% and male usage in France at 100%. Country context changes the answer.
Why can the result for Alexis 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 Alexis 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.