Aleksi
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name from Ancient Greek
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɑle̞ks̠i/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Aleksi 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.
- FIFinland1 in 136(measured from records)
- RURussia≈1 in 45as Алексей
- UAUkraine≈1 in 94as Олег
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 Aleksi 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)
- #11 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 667 (measured from records)
- 1 in 136 (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,200,000 named Алексей, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Алексей in RU Russia, BY Belarus, CN China and 1 more, Alex in US United States, BR Brazil, 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)
a male given name from Ancient Greek
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Aleksi 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #5 | ≈3,200,000 est. | ≈1 in 45 | #5 | Алексей | 291 |
| CN China | — | ≈930,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Алексей | 119 |
| UA Ukraine | #15 | ≈470,000 est. | ≈1 in 94 | listed | Олексій | 156 |
| US United States | #162 | 373,467as Alex | 1 in 891 | 351K | Alex | 667 |
| BR Brazil | #97 | 294,567as Alex | 1 in 719 | 312K | Alex | 242 |
| BY Belarus | #7 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 95 | 29 | Алексей | 76 |
| FI Finland | #8 | 40,989 | 1 in 136 | 46K | Алексей | 124 |
| MD Moldova | #10 | 30,694as Oleg | 1 in 110 | 31K | Alexei | 65 |
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); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Aleksi 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.
In German, männl. Vom., finnische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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)
- Aleksey Petrovich Yermolovb. 1777RUnot in their usual nameRussian general (1777–1861)
- Alexeï Chtchoussevb. 1873MDnot in their usual nameRussian architect (1873-1949)
- Ali Aaltonenb. 1884FInot in their usual nameLieutenant in the Imperial Russian army, journalist, and Finnish socialist leader (1884-1918)
- Aleksi Machavarianib. 1913GEGeorgian musician (1913-1995)
- Aleksi Bardyb. 1970FIFinnish screenwriter and film producer
- Aleksi Salmenperäb. 1973FIFinnish film director
- Jussi Markkanenb. 1975FInot in their usual nameFinnish ice hockey player
- Alexi Laihob. 1979FInot in their usual nameFinnish musician (1979–2020)
- Arttu Wiskarib. 1984FInot in their usual nameFinnish singer-songwriter
- Joona Toiviob. 1988FInot in their usual nameFinnish footballer
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 42 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- What does the name Aleksi mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name from Ancient Greek Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Aleksi?
- A machine transcription gives /ɑle̞ks̠i/ (IPA) for Finnish.
- Is Aleksi a male or female name?
- Aleksi 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 Aleksi 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 Aleksi most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Aleksi is densest in Finland — about 1 in 136 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- What are other forms of the name Aleksi?
- In the etymology graph, Alex, Alexis and Alejo are forms of the same name in other languages; Ale is a recorded short or pet form.
- How common is the name Aleksi?
- In Finland, the national register counted 40,989 people named Aleksi, about 1 in 136 residents.
- How common is Aleksi compared with other names?
- In Russia, Aleksi is the 5th most common given name of 472,143 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/aleksiThe 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, “Aleksi” — the 5th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.