Alexis
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Alexis is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Honduras it is the 9th most common given name. In Spanish, recorded as a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Alexis.
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 416(inferred from the name graph)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 564
- ECEcuador1 in 608
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)
- #863 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 476 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 416 (inferred from the name graph)
358,350 people, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Venezuela, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Alexi in EC Ecuador.
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)
from the French personal name Alexis, ultimately Greek alexios 'helping, defending'.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
How Alexis is read(measured from records)
Alexis is one spelling over 3 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.
- Spanish41%
a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Alexis
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English31%
from the French personal name Alexis, ultimately Greek alexios 'helping, defending'.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
A male given name from Ancient Greek.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French16%
Du nom grec Alexios, dérivé de alexein « repousser, défendre, protéger ».
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
Du grec Alexios, « défenseur »; saint Alexis fêté le 17 juillet.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Alexis 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 | 476 |
| FR France | — | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 567 | 150K | Alexis | 5 |
| VE Venezuela | #48 | ≈69,000 est. | ≈1 in 416 | — | Alexis | 109 |
| AR Argentina | #207 | ≈50,000 est. | ≈1 in 902 | 834 | Alexis | 154 |
| CO Colombia | #138 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Alexis | 151 |
| CL Chile | #85 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 611 | 3 | Alexis | 153 |
| EC Ecuador | #478 | 27,804 | 1 in 608 | 27K | Alexi | 73 |
| PY Paraguay | #83 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 564 | — | Alexis | 52 |
| HN Honduras | #9 | ≈7,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Alexis | 52 |
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: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); INEC — civil registry names. 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)
Alexis 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.
, 3 Variant (or female derivative) of Alexius, the Latin spelling of Greek Alexios, a short form of various compound personal names derived from alexein ‘to defend’. St Alexius was a 5th-century saint of Edessa, venerated particularly in the Orthodox Church as a ‘man of God’. Alexis was originally a boy’s name, but is now more commonly given to girls.
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)
- Alexis Clairautb. 1713FRFrench mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist (*1713 – †1765)
- Alexis de Tocquevilleb. 1805FRFrench political thinker and historian, minister of Foreign Affairs (1805-1859)
- Saint-John Perseb. 1887FRnot in their usual nameFrench poet and diplomat (1887–1975)
- Maurice Jarreb. 1924FRnot in their usual nameFrench composer and conductor (1924-2009)
- Alexis Argüellob. 1952NINicaraguan professional boxer and politician (1952–2009), world champion in three weight divisions and mayor of Managua in 2009
- Alexis Tsiprasb. 1974GRPrime Minister of Greece (2015; 2015–2019)
- Alexis Bledelb. 1981USAmerican actress
- Gary Medelb. 1987CLnot in their usual nameChilean association football player
- Alexis Sánchezb. 1988CLChilean footballer (born 1988)
- Alexis Mac Allisterb. 1998ARArgentine association football player (born 1998)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 127 sources across 64 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 297K | #139 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 150K | #201 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 62K | #139 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 27K | #93 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 1.3K | #794 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 834 | #172 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 584 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 547 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 258 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2023 | 170 | #2,466 |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- Is Alexis a male or female name?
- Alexis 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.
- Where does the name Alexis come from?
- from the French personal name Alexis, ultimately Greek alexios 'helping, defending'. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- What does the name Alexis mean?
- In Spanish, a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Alexis
- What are other forms of the name Alexis?
- In the etymology graph, Aleksejs and Lyosha are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Alexis have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 358 thousand people named Alexis, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alexis.
- How common is the name Alexis?
- In the United States, the national register counted 358,350 people named Alexis in 2020, about 1 in 928 residents.
- How common is Alexis compared with other names?
- In Honduras, Alexis is the 9th most common given name of 23,588 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/alexisThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Alexis” — the 9th most common given name in Honduras. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.