Alexys
Feminine · “defender”
Alexys is given to both — 4,166 girls and 378 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
Alexis was a man's name for two and a half thousand years. It still is in Greece and Russia, where Alexei is entirely masculine. What changed it in America was a television series: a character called Alexis Carrington arrived in 1981, the show was watched by tens of millions, and within five years the name had crossed to daughters and stayed there. The y in this spelling marks that crossing.
How old is the name Alexys?
Alexys first appears in US birth records in 1980 — 45 years ago. The typical Alexys alive today was born around 2002, making them about 23 years old. About 4,100 people named Alexys are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Alexys most popular?
Alexys peaked in 1999, reaching #821 nationally. Today it ranks #14942, 14,121 places below that high. See the whole 1999 chart.
Where it comes from
From alexein to Alexys
The story of Alexys
The name's history is entirely masculine until very recently: Alexios was a Byzantine imperial name, Alexei a Russian one, and Alexis a French men's name. The American reversal is unusually well documented — the show that caused it went on the air in 1981 and the name's use for girls climbs from that year. The y-spelling belongs to the same movement and does a specific job: it signals, on paper, that the child is a daughter, which the standard spelling no longer does reliably.
Meaning
defender, helper
From the Greek alexein, to defend or ward off — the same verb that opens Alexander. Alexis is the shorter name built on it and was borne by a Greek comic poet, a saint and several Russian tsars, all of them men.
How the name formed
- alexein
- Alexios
- Alexis
- Alexys
Related forms: Alexis · Aleksei · Alexis
Pronouncing Alexys
uh-LEK-sis
Three syllables, stress in the middle. The y sits where the i does in the standard spelling and changes nothing audible; it is a visual signal and nothing more.
Nicknames for Alexys
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
- 1980
- Most girls named
- 2001273 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #821reached in 1999
- Change vs 2024
- −44.4%5 in 2025, from 9
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.
Alexys in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Alexis in Greek — same name
- Aleksei in Russian — related form
- Alexis in French — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California.
Alexyss among us
people named Alexys are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 321,453 born in 2025 was named Alexys
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Alexys
- #14942
- Alexys on the 2025 chart
- #489
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Alexys went to 5 girls in 2025, but Alexis is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 552, which makes it the 489th most-given girls’ name of the year — 14,453 places above the chart.
- Alexis547
- Alexys5
About 1 girl in 2,912 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 321,453 for Alexys itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Theola test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Alexys's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Theola climbed just as high around 1924, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Theola's path sketches the road Alexys is walking now.
Alexys sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Alexys beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Alexys in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Alex and Lexi are both available and belong to different registers.
- The Greek verb behind it is documented and the meaning takes one word.
- The y marks the name as a daughter's, which the standard spelling has stopped doing.
- It is recorded for boys as well as girls, following the older tradition.
- Alexis is the standard spelling and will be written on nearly everything.
- The change is inaudible, so the letters have to be dictated each time.
- The name is dated fairly precisely by the television series that moved it.
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Frequently asked
- How many Alexyss are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 4,100 people named Alexys are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Alexys?
- Alexys is one of 2 recorded spellings. Alexis is the more common one — 547 births in 2025 against 5 for Alexys.
- How popular is the name Alexys in 2025?
- Alexys ranks #14942 among US girl names in 2025, with 5 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Alexys?
- About 1 in every 321,453 US girls born in 2025 was named Alexys — 5 in all.
- Will my child share the name Alexys with classmates?
- Alexys will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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