Given name · also Latin
Aleksis
Aleksis is a masculine given name from Latin, ultimately from Ancient Greek. It is used in Finnish and Latvian.
Original LatinAlexius
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Aleksis comes from Latin, and ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Latvian usage, Aleksis developed from Alexius. In Latvian usage, Aleksis developed from Ἀλέξιος.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1993. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Aleksis through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 73
- 5 boys · 68 girls
- Most popular year
- 1998
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2011. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 143 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Aleksis’s family of names
In Latvian usage, Aleksis developed from the Latin form Alexius. In Finnish usage, Aleksis has a related form in Aleksi. In Finnish usage, Aleksis has a conventional equivalent in the English form Alexius.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Aleksis has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
Ancient Greekwhere Aleksis comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 9
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Alexiusroot · Latin, English
- Alexisequivalent
- Alexandrosequivalent
- Alekequivalent
- Alekseiequivalent
- AleksyPolish
- Ἀλέξανδροςequivalent
- Αλέξανδροςequivalent
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See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
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