Alexsis
Feminine · “Defender”
Alexsis is given to both — 1,264 girls and 190 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
The x in this name is a Latin letter, and there is a Greek letter that looks exactly like it and is not the same thing at all. Greek X is a k with a breath after it, the sound at the end of the Scottish word loch. Latin X is a k and an s together. The two alphabets share a shape and not a sound.
How old is the name Alexsis?
Alexsis first appears in US birth records in 1975 — 50 years ago. The typical Alexsis alive today was born around 1997, making them about 28 years old. About 1,200 people named Alexsis are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Alexsis most popular?
Alexsis peaked in 1996, reaching #1736 nationally. See the whole 1996 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Alexios to Alexsis
The story of Alexsis
Alphabets borrowed from one another by eye as much as by ear, and the results are still with us. Greek took its letters from Phoenician and gave some of them new values; Latin took its letters from Greek by way of Etruscan and did it again. So the letter written X stands for a breathy k in Greek, which is why Christ begins with it, and for a k plus an s in Latin, which is why Alexis does. The same shape carries two different jobs, and English inherited the Latin one while keeping a handful of Greek words spelled the other way. A name like this sits on the seam: it is Greek in origin, Latin in spelling, and English in the way it is now said.
Meaning
Defender
Greek alexein, to ward off. The name was a man's for most of its history and crossed to women in America within a single generation, which is a normal fate for names that sound elegant and carry no strong male figure. The extra s in this spelling writes a sound the x already contains, so the name has the consonant twice on the page and once in the mouth.
How the name formed
- Alexios
- Alexis
- Alexsis
Related forms: Alexios · Alexis · Aleksei
Pronouncing Alexsis
uh-LEK-sis
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. The added s is silent in effect, because the x already ends in that sound and English does not double it; the spelling has a letter the mouth does not use.
Nicknames for Alexsis
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1975
- Most girls named
- 199889 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1736reached in 1996
- Change vs 2015
- 0.0%5 in 2018, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Alexsis in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Alexios in Greek — related form
- Alexis in French — same name
- Aleksei in Russian — related form
Alexsiss among us
people named Alexsis are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Alexsis sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Alex and Lexi are both fully current names waiting inside it, in different registers.
- The name works for a child of either sex and has done for a generation.
- The sound is universally recognized and never needs repeating.
- The extra s writes a sound that is already there, so the spelling is redundant rather than distinguishing.
- Alexis is the standard form by a very wide margin and will be substituted on every form.
- The record carries this spelling for boys as well, so it signals nothing about a child's sex.
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- How many Alexsiss are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,200 people named Alexsis are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Alexsis in 2025?
- Alexsis is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Alexsis with classmates?
- Alexsis will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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