Alyx

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Alyx: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Alyx: Recorded since 1996, it reached #677 in 2004, and it stood at #3,961 in 2021.

2registrars recorded it
22times a registrar ranked it
26years from first to last
#677highest recorded position
6groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2021

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1031
1997	#897
1998	#1823
1999	#1160
2000	#897
2001	#992
2002	#1442
2003	#2436
2004	#2278
2005	#2247
2006	#5061
2007	#4294
2008	#2487
2009	#3936
2010	#5707
2011	#3549
2016	#5785
2020	#2843
2021	#3961

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 19 of the 26 years from 1996 to 2021.

In 2004: #677 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #2278 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2021 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1031 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2021
Most recently recorded at #3961 among girls in England and Wales, in 2021.
England and Wales · Girls

Alyx appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 19 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 197 births with the name.

Alyx across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Alyx's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#1031 (1996)	#897 (1997)	#3961 (2021)	19 of 26	197 (1996–2021)	24 (1997)
England and Wales · Boys	#3134 (2001)	#2857 (2003)	#2857 (2003)	2 of 3	7 (2001–2003)	4 (2003)

Alyx by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Alyx in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	69	4 of 10	17
2000sbusiest	103	10 of 10	10
2010s	12	3 of 10	4
2020s	13	2 of 10	7

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 10 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Alyx appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2021. Highest recorded position: #677 in Republic of Ireland in 2004.

Alyx's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2021	England and Wales	female	#3961	5	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2843	8	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#3549	6	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#5707	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3936	5	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2487	9	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#4294	4	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#5061	3	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2247	9	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2278	8	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#2436	7	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#2857	4	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1442	13	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#992	21	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#3134	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#897	24	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1160	17	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1823	9	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#897	24	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1031	19	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#677	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2021, ranked in 19 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #677, first reached in 2004.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 24 births, registered in England and Wales in 1997.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 4 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2004, and 8 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Alyssia · #423, 29y
Alyvia · #790, 15y
Alyza · #1069, 16y
Alyzah · #3148, 10y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Atene · #677, 14y
Comfort · #677, 21y
Dasha · #677, 18y
Inioluwa · #677, 20y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Comfort · #677, 21y
Enola · #677, 23y
Fatoumata · #677, 26y
Giselle · #677, 29y

Alyx was ranked #677 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2004. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Alyx and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Alyx without appearing here.

Alyx moved ahead of

Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #5785 and #2757 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2843 and #5493.
Geraldine Compare
In 2019 they stood at #5785 and #5785 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2843 and #5493.
Kristy Compare
In 2010 they stood at #5707 and #4688 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #3549 and #5785.
Denise Compare
In 2019 they stood at #5785 and #4763 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2843 and #4535.

Moved ahead of Alyx

Harper Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2247 and #2682 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #5061 and #2137.
Meabh Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2843 and #3447 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #3961 and #1286.
Rian Compare
In 2009 they stood at #2278 and #3725 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #5707 and #3533.
Hayden Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2843 and #3117 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #3961 and #2341.

Moved the opposite way to Alyx

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Alyx went from #1031 to #3961 while Ada went from #2683 to #44.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Alyx went from #1031 to #3961 while Alma went from #2096 to #267.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Alyx went from #1031 to #3961 while Alyssa went from #783 to #211.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Alyx went from #1031 to #3961 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1102.

Moved the same way as Alyx

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Alyx went from #1031 to #3961 and Abigail from #21 to #105.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Alyx went from #1031 to #3961 and Aimee from #70 to #1195.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Alyx went from #1031 to #3961 and Aisling from #440 to #1569.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Alyx went from #1031 to #3961 and Alex from #161 to #1866.

What's not yet available

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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2021. Highest recorded position: #677 in Republic of Ireland in 2004. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Alyx

Alyx at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Alyx across 2 official records

Alyx by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Alyx across 2 official records

Alyx by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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