Lexington
Masculine · “The settlement of Leaxa's people”
Lexington is given to both — 1,027 boys and 1,313 girls since 1880. See Lexington as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Lexington is where the American Revolution started shooting. On 19 April 1775 militia and British regulars met on the green, somebody fired, and eight Americans died. The name's peak as an American boy's name is 2020.
How old is the name Lexington?
Lexington first appears in US birth records in 1987 — 38 years ago. The typical Lexington is a kid of about 9 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,000 people named Lexington are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Lexington most popular?
Lexington peaked in 2020, reaching #1694 nationally. Today it ranks #5608, 3,914 places below that high. See the whole 2020 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
The story of Lexington
The confrontation at Lexington and the fighting at Concord that followed began the Revolutionary War, and the shot heard round the world entered American self-description permanently. Lexington in Kentucky, founded in 1775 and named for the battle, became the center of American thoroughbred breeding. As a given name Lexington is entirely modern and belongs to the twenty-first-century American taste for long place and surname names — Kingston, Camden, Bexley, Lexington — and its peak in 2020 makes it one of the newer entries in the ranked list.
Meaningscholars disagree
The settlement of Leaxa's people
The Massachusetts town was named in 1713, probably after Lexington in Nottinghamshire, whose name is generally derived from an Old English personal name with the -ing and tūn endings — the farmstead of a named man's people. The personal name is not securely identified. As a modern given name the word carries the town and the battle rather than the etymology.
Pronouncing Lexington
LEK-sing-tun
Three syllables, stress on the first. There is no ambiguity in speech.
Nicknames for Lexington
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1987
- Most boys named
- 202092 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1694reached in 2020
- Change vs 2024
- −50.0%16 in 2025, from 32
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Lexington in other languages
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, Florida, Texas.
Lexingtons among us
people named Lexington are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 106,755 born in 2025 was named Lexington
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Jerard test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Lexington's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Jerard climbed just as high around 1986, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Jerard's path sketches the road Lexington is walking now.
Lexington sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Lexington beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Lexington in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Lex is a strong and ready short form.
- Everyone can say and spell it after one hearing.
- It has a specific and significant American history.
- Three syllables and ten letters is long for American forms.
- It is used for both sexes and Lexi leans feminine.
- It names a battle, which is a particular thing to carry.
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Lexington
Masculine · #5608 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Lexingtons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Lexington are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Lexington in 2025?
- Lexington ranks #5608 among US boy names in 2025, with 16 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Lexington?
- About 1 in every 106,755 US boys born in 2025 was named Lexington — 16 in all.
- Will my child share the name Lexington with classmates?
- Lexington will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Lexington
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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