Boy · Greek
Aleksei
Say it: ah-lyek-SAY
Meaning
From Greek alexein 'to defend'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Through Saint Alexis, a Romanov name and common Russian name.
Its wave through time
Rare in the records
In the United States
- 406 babies given this name since 1994
- At its height in 2001, about 1 in 77,700 boys
- 14 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- The High and Late Middle Ages1100 to 1450
- The Renaissance1400 to 1600
- The Age of Revolutions1750 to 1837
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Alexei, Алексей, Alyosha
| Ukrainian | Oleksii |
|---|---|
| Polish | Aleksy |
| Czech | Alexej |
| Greek | Alexios |
Famous bearers
- Tsar Alexis (Aleksei Mikhailovich)
- Alexei Tolstoy, writer
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Where this comes from
- Lives of the saints and early Christian martyrologies
- Royal and noble genealogies
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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