Lexis

Where Lexis comes from

The dictionaries list Lexis as a given name — a female given name, variant of Alexis — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

Along the way
  1. 1982
    First appearance
    #7,469 among girls, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1998
    Peak, #948
    217 babies named Lexis — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2008
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,206.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name, variant of Alexis
Namesakes

No widely known Lexis turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

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.