Alix
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Alix is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Haiti it is the 15th most common given name. In French, recorded as Medieval French form of Alice or Alexis; Germanic/Greek origin.
- FRFrance≈1 in 3.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 61K
- GPGuadeloupe≈1 in 2.9K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 335 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈18,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Guadeloupe, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Medieval French form of Alice or Alexis; Germanic/Greek origin.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
How Alix is read(measured from records)
Alix is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 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.
- French47%
Medieval French form of Alice or Alexis; Germanic/Greek origin.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
a female given name, variant of Alice
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Altération de Aalis, du nom germanique Adalhaid, de adal « noble » et haid « espèce, race ».
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
Origine espagnole; forme originelle d’Alice, signifie « jole ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
- English25%
A female given name from the Germanic languages, an Old French form of Alice.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish20%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Alix in Spanish.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Alix 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #481 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | 31K | Alix | 335 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈9,900 est. | ≈1 in 5K | 12 | — | 1 |
| CN China | — | ≈8,800 est. | ≈1 in 159K | — | Alix | 6 |
| US United States | — | 5,491 | 1 in 61K | 4K | Alix | 200 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #994 | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Alix | 7 |
| HT Haiti | #15 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | — | Alix | 22 |
| GP Guadeloupe | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | 5 | — | 8 |
| MQ Martinique | — | ≈72 est. | ≈1 in 6K | 5 | — | 10 |
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; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique). 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)
Alix 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.
Variant of Alex, used only as a feminine name. Its formation has probably been influenced by pAlice.
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)
- Alice of Antiochb. 1110TRnot in their usual nameDaughter of Baldwin II of Jerusalem, Princess of Antioch (12th century)
- Petronilla of Aquitaineb. 1125FRnot in their usual nameFrench noble, sister of Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine
- Alice of Franceb. 1150FRnot in their usual nameFrench princess
- Aliceb. 1193FRnot in their usual nameQueen consort of Cyprus
- Adelaide, Countess of Auxerreb. 1251not in their usual nameCountess of Auxerre (1251-1290)
- Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhineb. 1864DEnot in their usual nameGrand Duchess of Russia (1864–1918)
- Alexandra Feodorovnab. 1872RUnot in their usual nameEmpress consort of Russia (1872–1918)
- Alix, Princess Napoléonb. 1926FRwidow of Louis, Prince Napoléon of France
- Princess Alix of Luxembourgb. 1929LUdaughter of Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, and Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma (1929-2019)
- Alix E. Harrowb. 1989USAmerican science fiction and fantasy author (b. 1989)
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 87 sources across 44 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 31K | #42 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 9.4K | #245 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4K | #3,700 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.5K | #3,700 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 24 | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 12 | #109 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 11 | — |
| GP Guadeloupe | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe) | 2024 | 5 | #5 |
| MQ Martinique | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique) | 2010 | 5 | #51 |
| GP Guadeloupe | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe) | 2007 | 5 | #75 |
| MQ Martinique | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique) | 2001 | 5 | #72 |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 does the name Alix mean, and where does it come from?
- Medieval French form of Alice or Alexis; Germanic/Greek origin. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- Is Alix a male or female name?
- Alix 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.
- What are other forms of the name Alix?
- In the etymology graph, Alicia, Alice and Allison are forms of the same name in other languages; Alison is a recorded short or pet form.
- In which country does Alix have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Alix in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alix.
- How common is the name Alix?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,491 people named Alix in 2020, about 1 in 61 thousand residents.
- How common is Alix compared with other names?
- In France, Alix is the 481st 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/alixThe 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, “Alix” — the 481st most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.