Alèx

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Alèx is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 5th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Short form of Alexandre and Alexis or Alexandra, ultimately from Ancient Greek.

rarermore common
  • ECEcuador1 in 251(measured from records)
  • BRBrazil1 in 719
  • USUnited States1 in 891

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Alèx itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Russia (inferred from the name graph)

≈3,200,000 named Алексей, est.

#11 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

8 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
667 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 251 (inferred from the name graph)

Ecuador

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

AlèxLatin(measured from records)
АлексейCyrillic(measured from records)
אלכסייHebrew(measured from records)
ალექსიGeorgian(measured from records)
ԱլեքսArmenian(measured from records)
ΑλεξGreek(measured from records)
อเล็กซิสThai(measured from records)
알렉세이Hangul(measured from records)

8 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Алексей in RU Russia, BY Belarus, CN China and 1 more, Alex in US United States, BR Brazil, EC Ecuador, Олексій in UA Ukraine and Alexei in MD Moldova.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Short form of Alexandre and Alexis or Alexandra, ultimately from Ancient Greek.

Sources 6

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
  • Wiktionary
  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Alèx counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Alèx is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#5≈3,200,000 est.≈1 in 45#5Алексей291
CN China—≈930,000 est.≈1 in 1.5K—Алексей119
UA Ukraine#15≈470,000 est.≈1 in 94listedОлексій156
US United States#162373,4671 in 891351KAlex667
BR Brazil#97294,5671 in 719312KAlex242
BY Belarus#7≈100,000 est.≈1 in 9529Алексей76
EC Ecuador#9567,3861 in 25167KAlex91
FI Finland#840,989as Aleksi1 in 13646KАлексей124
MD Moldova#1030,694as Oleg1 in 11031KAlexei65

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); INEC — civil registry names; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); e-services.md — living population register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Alèx is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name44 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Ecuador, United Kingdom

    Also written Alex, Àlex, Álex, A̶l̶e̶x̶, Aléx

2 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Alèx under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Alèx mean, and where does it come from?
Short form of Alexandre and Alexis or Alexandra, ultimately from Ancient Greek. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 4 other sources.
Is Alèx a male or female name?
Alèx is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Alèx have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 3.2 million people named Алексей in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Alèx most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Alèx is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 251 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Alèx?
In the United States, the national register counted 373,467 people named Alèx in 2020, about 1 in 891 residents.
How common is Alèx compared with other names?
In Russia, Alèx is the 5th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Alèx” — the 5th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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