Alexis

Gender Masculine & Feminine
Scripts Ἄλεξις (Ancient Greek)
Pronounced Pron. /a.lek.si/ (French) /ə.ˈlɛk.sɪs/ (English) /a.ˈlek.sis/ (Spanish) [key ·simplify]

Meaning & History

From the Greek name or "defender", derived from Greek alexo) meaning "to defend, to help" [2] . This was the name of a 3rd-century BC Greek comic poet, and also of several saints. It is used somewhat interchangeably with the related name Family Tree ·Details
Rootalexo
VariantsAlexia, Alexus (English) Alejo (Spanish)
DiminutivesAlexina, Lexi, Lexia, Lexie, Lexine, Lexus, Lexy (English)
Feminine FormsAlexia (French) Alexia (Greek) Alexia (Spanish)
Other Languages & CulturesAliaksei (Belarusian) Aleksi (Bulgarian) Aleix, Alèxia (Catalan) Aljoša (Croatian) Alexej, Aleš (Czech) Aleksi, Ale (Finnish) Aleixo (Galician) Aleksi (Georgian) Elek (Hungarian) Alessia, Alessio (Italian) Aleksejs (Latvian) Aleksy (Polish) Aleixo (Portuguese) Aleksei, Aleksey, Alexei, Alexey, Aleks, Alex, Alyosha, Lyosha (Russian) Aleksa, Aljoša (Serbian) Alexej, Aleš (Slovak) Aleksej, Aleks, Aleš, Aljoša (Slovene) Oleksiy, Olexiy, Oles (Ukrainian)
User SubmissionAlèxis

Popularity

People think this name is

youthful upper class wholesome refined strange serious

Name Days

France: February 17
Germany: July 17
Greece: March 17
Spain: February 17
Spain: July 17
Sweden: December 12
  1. Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, available from https://search.lgpn.ox.ac.uk/browse.html?facet-nymRef=Ἄλεξις&facet-nymRef= ̓́Αλεξις.
  2. Liddell, Scott and Jones. An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, entry a)le/cw, available from https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0058%3Aentry%3Da%29le%2Fcw.

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