Alexis

Where Alexis comes from

From French Alexis, from Latin Alexis, ultimately from Ancient Greek Ἄλεξις (Álexis, “helper, defender”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Alexis
  • Ancient Greek
  • 3 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1805
    Alexis de Tocqueville born
    French political thinker and historian, minister of Foreign Affairs
  2. 1931
    First appearance
    #4,331 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1974
    Alexis Tsipras born
    Prime Minister of Greece (2015; 2015–2019)
  4. 1999
    Peak, #3
    19,237 babies named Alexis — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2010
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #16.
  6. 2024
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Ancient Greek.
  • A female given name from Ancient Greek, transferred from the male name and used since the 1940s.
Namesakes
  • Alexis de Tocqueville · French political thinker and historian, minister of Foreign Affairs, 1805–1859
  • Alexis Tsipras · Prime Minister of Greece (2015; 2015–2019), born 1974
  • Alexis Carrel · French surgeon and biologist, 1873–1944
  • Alexis Sánchez · Chilean footballer, born 1988
  • Alexis Bledel · American actress, born 1981

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.