Alexia
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in French: Feminine form of Alexios/Alexis, from Greek alexein 'to defend'
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/alɛksia/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Alexia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 5.1K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 6.4K
- UYUruguay≈1 in 7.5K
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 Alexia 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 290 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
39,584 people, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Feminine form of Alexios/Alexis, from Greek alexein 'to defend'.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
How Alexia is read(measured from records)
Alexia is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- French37%
Feminine form of Alexios/Alexis, from Greek alexein 'to defend'.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Féminin d’Alexis ou forme liée à Alexandre; du grec alexein, « défendre ».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Greek origin, from Alexis; means « qui repousse l’ennemi ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
- Spanish24%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Alexia in Spanish.
- English24%
The inability, due to a cerebral disorder, to comprehend or understand writing.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese6.7%
alexia (inability to understand writing)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Alexia, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Alexia 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 | — | 39,584 | 1 in 8.4K | 39K | Alexia | 290 |
| BR Brazil | — | 33,124 | 1 in 6.4K | 33K | Alexia | 131 |
| FR France | — | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | 37K | Alexia | 4 |
| ES Spain | #898 | 9,755 | 1 in 5.1K | 9.8K | Alexia | 129 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | — | Alexia | 23 |
| CY Cyprus | #850 | 757as Αλεξια | 1 in 1.7K | 757 | Alexia | 45 |
| UY Uruguay | #324 | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 7.5K | — | Alexia | 20 |
39,584 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Alexia is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Feminine of aLexis. Alexis $ Greek: ‘defender’. See main dictionary.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Lucile Grahnb. 1819DKnot in their usual nameDanish ballet dancer (1819–1907)
- Alexia de Greciab. 1965GRGreco-Danish princess (born 1965); eldest child of Constantine II and Anne-Marie of Denmark
- Alexia Stresib. 1971FRFrench actress
- Alexia Landeaub. 1975FRFrench actress
- Alexia Portalb. 1977FRFrench actress
- Alexia Barlierb. 1982FRFrench actress
- Alexia Fastb. 1992CACanadian actress
- Alexia Putellasb. 1994ESSpanish footballer
- Alexia Paganinib. 2001USSwiss-American figure skater
- Princess Alexia of the Netherlandsb. 2005NLthe second daughter of Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands and Queen Máxima
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 84 sources across 47 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 39K | #1,057 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 37K | #616 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 33K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 33K | #763 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 16K | #1,621 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 9.8K | #556 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 9.3K | #290 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 4.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 278 | #763 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 239 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 155 | #1,057 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2006 | 6 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Alexia?
- In the etymology graph, Alessia, Lexi and Lexie are forms of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Alexia mean, and where does it come from?
- Feminine form of Alexios/Alexis, from Greek alexein 'to defend'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- How do you pronounce Alexia?
- A machine transcription gives /alɛksia/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Alexia have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 40 thousand people named Alexia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alexia.
- Is Alexia a male or female name?
- Alexia is a female 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.
- How common is the name Alexia?
- In the United States, the national register counted 39,584 people named Alexia in 2020, about 1 in 8.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Alexia compared with other names?
- In Uruguay, Alexia is the 324th most common given name of 12,212 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Alexia?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/alexiaThe 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, “Alexia” — the 324th most common given name in Uruguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.