Bexley is an English place name, a borough of London and a suburb of Columbus, Ohio, that means "box-tree clearing" or "meadow of box trees", from the Old English byxe and leah. As a first name it is new, part of the fashion for surname-style -ley names like Paisley and Hadley with a punchy X in the middle. Bexley reached the US top 1000 in 2016, peaked at number 753 in 2021, slipped out for two years and ranks number 963 among girls' names in 2025.