Lex
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from a short form of the personal nzme
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/lɛks/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lex is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 6.3K(measured from records)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 32K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 68K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 366 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a short form of the personal nzme. Alexius, Alexis.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lex 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 129K | — | Lex | 13 |
| US United States | — | 3,551 | 1 in 94K | 3K | Lex | 366 |
| NL Netherlands | #612 | 2,752 | 1 in 6.3K | 2.7K | Lex | 116 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 68K | — | Lex | 65 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 32K | 3 | Lex | 123 |
| SE Sweden | — | 458 | 1 in 22K | 458 | Lex | 14 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 34K | 10 | Lex | 47 |
| LU Luxembourg | #184 | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 9.9K | — | Lex | 11 |
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; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). 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)
Lex is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, To perform lexical analysis; to convert a character stream to a token stream as a preliminary to parsing.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Greek; name Alexander, but also an independent name
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In German, männl. Vom., Kurzform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Greek, Name Alexander But Also
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English: short form of ALEX . The minor vogue for this name, and the rhyming DEX and TEX , may have been inspired by the now distinctly old-fashioned REX .
as a word
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)
- Lex Barkerb. 1919USAmerican actor (1919–1973)
- Lex van Deldenb. 1919NLDutch composer (1919-1988)
- Lex Davisonb. 1923AUAustralian racing driver (1923-1965)
- Lex Schoorelb. 1938NLDutch actor (born 1938)
- Lex Marinosb. 1949AUAustralian actor
- Lex Langb. 1965USAmerican voice actor
- Lex Medlinb. 1969USAmerican actor
- Lex Shrapnelb. 1979GBBritish actor
- Lex Ortegab. 1980MXMexican film director
- Lex Immersb. 1986NLDutch 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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 68 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #23,576 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1K | #24,031 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1K | #23,530 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 15 | #55,793 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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)
- 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 Lex a male or female name?
- Lex 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.
- What are other forms of the name Lex?
- In the etymology graph, Alejandro, Alex and Alexandre are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Alexander.
- Where does the name Lex come from?
- from a short form of the personal nzme. Alexius, Alexis. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Lex mean?
- Recorded meaning: from a short form of the personal nzme.
- How do you pronounce Lex?
- A machine transcription gives /lɛks/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Lex have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Lex in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lex.
- Where is Lex most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lex is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 6.3 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lex?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,551 people named Lex in 2020, about 1 in 94 thousand residents.
- How common is Lex compared with other names?
- In Luxembourg, Lex is the 184th most common given name of 521 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Lex?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lexThe 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, “Lex” — the 184th most common given name in Luxembourg. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.