Alêxis
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Alêxis is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In France it is the 86th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From French Alexis, from Latin Alexis, ultimately from Ancient Greek Ἄλεξις (Álexis, “helper, defender”).
- USUnited States1 in 928(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 5K
- FRFrance≈1 in 815K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 420 (measured from records)
- 1 in 608 (inferred from the name graph)
358,350 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Alexis in FR France, US United States, ES Spain.
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)
- FrenchAlexis(measured from records)
- LatinAlexis(measured from records)
- Ancient GreekἌλεξιςÁlexis“helper, defender”(measured from records)
From French Alexis, from Latin Alexis, ultimately from Ancient Greek Ἄλεξις (Álexis, “helper, defender”).
Sources 8
- A concise dictionary of first names
- A dictionary of surnames
- Wiktionary
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Alêxis 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 358,350 | 1 in 928 | 297K | Alexis | 396 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 27,804 | 1 in 608 | 27K | — | 27 |
| ES Spain | — | 9,949 | 1 in 5K | 9.9K | Alexis | 100 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 5,282 | 1 in 965 | 5.3K | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 2,863 | 1 in 3.6K | 2.9K | — | 32 |
| GY Guyana | — | 392 | 1 in 1.9K | 392 | — | — |
| FR France | #86 | ≈83 est. | ≈1 in 815K | 150K | Alexis | 420 |
358,350 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INEC — civil registry names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Alêxis mean, and where does it come from?
- From French Alexis, from Latin Alexis, ultimately from Ancient Greek Ἄλεξις (Álexis, “helper, defender”). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and A dictionary of surnames and 6 other sources.
- Is Alêxis a male or female name?
- Alêxis 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 Alêxis have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 358 thousand people named Alêxis, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alexis.
- Where is Alêxis most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Alêxis is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 608 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Alêxis?
- In the United States, the national register counted 358,350 people named Alêxis in 2020, about 1 in 928 residents.
- How common is Alêxis compared with other names?
- In France, Alêxis is the 86th most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/al%C3%AAxisThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Alêxis” — the 86th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.