The ALEX surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,314	7142	0.002	16
United States (1880 census)	287	14761	0.001	6
Change since 1880	+4027	+7619	+0.001	+10
Other Countries
Australia	76	18156	0	5
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for ALEX by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	533	5633	0.002	16
Texas	469	4763	0.002	22
Illinois	318	4349	0.003	26
Florida	288	7144	0.002	18
New York	283	7277	0.001	15
Top States for ALEX by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Louisiana	267	2382	0.006	60
Montana	37	3816	0.004	41
Alaska	23	4131	0.004	37
Maine	45	4142	0.004	35
Massachusetts	220	4118	0.003	35

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called ALEX live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called ALEX represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called ALEX in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a ALEX by picking someone at random in Louisiana than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of ALEX

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the ALEX surname.

Ethnic distribution of ALEX in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	927	21.49
Asian/Pacific	402	9.32
White (Hispanic)	210	4.87
Native American/Alaskan	130	3.01
Mixed Race	103	2.39
White (Caucasian)	2,542	58.92

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the ALEX surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

ALEX is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Similar names to ALEX

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ALEX.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.