Alexey

given name · Latin script

Meaning: A transliteration of the Russian male given name Алексе́й (Alekséj), equivalent to Alexis

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/æʎɪksi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Alexey 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.

rarermore common
  • RURussia≈1 in 45as Алексей(inferred from the name graph)
  • UAUkraine≈1 in 94as Олег
  • BYBelarus≈1 in 95as Алексей

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 Alexey 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)

≈3,200,000 named Алексей, est.

#11 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

8 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
667 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 45 (inferred from the name graph)

Russia, est., as Алексей

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

АлексейCyrillic(measured from records)
AlexLatin(measured from records)
אלכסייHebrew(measured from records)
ალექსიGeorgian(measured from records)
ԱլեքսArmenian(measured from records)
ΑλεξGreek(measured from records)
อเล็กซิสThai(measured from records)
알렉세이Hangul(measured from records)

7 other spellings are counted as the same name:

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 transliteration of the Russian male given name Алексе́й (Alekséj), equivalent to Alexis.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Alexey 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.

Where Alexey is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#5≈3,200,000 est.≈1 in 45#5Алексей291
CN China—≈930,000 est.≈1 in 1.5K—Алексей119
UA Ukraine#15≈470,000 est.≈1 in 94listedОлексій156
US United States#162373,467as Alex1 in 891351KAlex667
BR Brazil#97294,567as Alex1 in 719312KAlex242
BY Belarus#7≈100,000 est.≈1 in 9529Алексей76
FI Finland#840,989as Aleksi1 in 13646KАлексей124
MD Moldova#1030,694as Oleg1 in 11031KAlexei65

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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Alexey is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Finnish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Estonia, Russia, Hungary, Finland

    Languages: Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian

    Also written Áléxéy

42 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

16001700180019002000Alexei I of Russia, b. 1629Maxim Gorki, b. 1868Alexei Rykov, b. 1881Alexei Kosygin, b. 1904Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, b. 1928Patriarch Alexius II, b. 1929Aleksei Arkhipovich Leonov, b. 1934Alexey Ekimov, b. 1945Alexei Navalny, b. 1976Alex Sparrow, b. 1988
  • Alexei I of Russiab. 1629RUnot in their usual nameTsar of Russia (1645–1676)
  • Maxim Gorkib. 1868RUnot in their usual nameRussian and Soviet writer (1868–1936)
  • Alexei Rykovb. 1881RUnot in their usual namePremier of Russia and the Soviet Union (1881-1938)
  • Alexei Kosyginb. 1904RUnot in their usual nameSoviet politician (1904-1980)
  • Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosovb. 1928RUnot in their usual nameSoviet, Russian and American theoretical physicist
  • Patriarch Alexius IIb. 1929EEnot in their usual name15th Patriarch of Moscow and all the Rus', the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church (1929–2008)
  • Aleksei Arkhipovich Leonovb. 1934RUnot in their usual nameSoviet pilot and cosmonaut, first human to conduct a spacewalk (1934-2019)
  • Alexey Ekimovb. 1945RURussian physicist
  • Alexei Navalnyb. 1976RUnot in their usual nameRussian jurist and opposition leader (1976-2024)
  • Alex Sparrowb. 1988RURussian singer and actor

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)

InformalПривет, Alexey!Hi Alexey, (English)

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 55 sources across 32 countries.

Official registers attesting Alexey
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.8K#5,822
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—988#763
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—231—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022184—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—182#26,983
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—144#14,645
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—135#31,349
MD Moldovae-services.md — living population register—89#1,002
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202072#5,822
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)200029—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—15#28,465
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202511—

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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 does the name Alexey mean, and where does it come from?
A transliteration of the Russian male given name Алексе́й (Alekséj), equivalent to Alexis. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Alexey?
In the etymology graph, Alexis, Alejo and Aleksej are forms of the same name in other languages; Alyosha and Lyosha are recorded short or pet forms.
How common is the name Alexey?
In the United States, the national register counted 373,467 people named Alex in 2020, about 1 in 891 residents.
How common is Alexey compared with other names?
In Russia, Alexey is the 5th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
How do you pronounce Alexey?
A machine transcription gives /æʎɪksi/ (IPA) for Russian.
Is Alexey a male or female name?
Alexey 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 Alexey have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 3.2 million people named Алексей in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.

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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, “Alexey” — the 5th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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