Given name · Belarusian
Аляксей
Аляксей (Aljaksjéj) is a masculine given name from Old East Slavic, ultimately from Ancient Greek. It is used in Belarusian.
BelarusianWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Alâksej.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Аляксей comes from Old East Slavic, and ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Belarusian usage, Аляксей developed from Ἀλέξιος.
Аляксей’s family of names
In Belarusian usage, Аляксей developed from the Ancient Greek form Ἀλέξιος. In Belarusian usage, Аляксей has a related form in Alaksiej. In Belarusian usage, Аляксей has a conventional equivalent in the Portuguese form Aleixo.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Аляксей has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
Ancient Greekwhere Аляксей comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 11
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Alexeiequivalent
- Alekseyequivalent
- Aleksejequivalent
- AleksyPolish
- Олексійequivalent
- АлексейRussian
- AleixoPortuguese
- Oleksiiequivalent
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People named Аляксей
- Alexey ZhigalkovichBelarusian singerborn 1996
- Aleksej AleksandrovBelarusian chess grandmasterborn 1973
- Alexei Aidarovbiathleteborn 1974
- Alexei FedorovBelarusian chess playerborn 1972
- Aleksey MedvedevOlympic wrestlerborn 1972
- Alexei KalyuzhnyBelarusian ice hockey playerborn 1977
- Aliaksei AbalmasauBelarusian sprint canoerborn 1980
- Aleksei KulbakovBelarusian football refereeborn 1979
- Aleksey RiosBelarusian association football playerborn 1987
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