Alexis
Meaning of Alexis
Alexis whirls onto the tongue like a samba step, light yet resolute, carrying the ancient Greek meaning of “defender” or “helper” beneath its modern, unisex cape. From the dusty streets of classical Athens to the neon glow of 1990s pop culture—think Dynasty’s glamorous Alexis Carrington and Gilmore Girls’ sweet-souled Alexis Bledel—the name has danced through centuries and genres, always landing on its feet. Parents love that it feels both suave and approachable: a name that can suit a courtroom closer, a guitar-playing dreamer, or a budding fútbol star dribbling under a sunny Latin sky. Storytellers whisper of Saint Alexis, the selfless wanderer, giving the name a quiet backbone of compassion. Yet, with its crisp consonants and melodic swing—uh-LEK-sis—it still sounds ready to zipline into whatever adventures tomorrow holds. Versatile, vibrant, and sprinkled with just enough heroic sparkle, Alexis promises a child the freedom to write a story as colorful as a fiesta at dusk.
Pronunciation
English
- Pronunced as uh-LEK-sis (/əˈlɛksɪs/)
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Notable People Named Alexis
| Alexis de Tocqueville was a French diplomat and political thinker best known for Democracy in America and The Old Regime and the Revolution, pioneering studies of social life and its ties to markets and the state. |
| Alexis Ohanian Sr is an American internet entrepreneur and investor best known as a Reddit cofounder who also cofounded Initialized Capital helped launch Hipmunk started Breadpig and served as a partner at Y Combinator. |
| Alexis Bledel is an American actress and model best known for playing Rory Gilmore on Gilmore Girls and Emily Malek on The Handmaid's Tale, with notable roles in Mad Men and the Gilmore Girls revival. |
| Michel Lamarche, a Canadian pro wrestler known as Alexis Smirnoff and Michel Justice Dubois, competed across NWA territories with brief stints in IWE, AWA, and WWF in the 1970s and 1980s. |
| Margaret Alexis Smith was an American actress and singer who appeared in 1940s Hollywood films and won a 1972 Tony Award for the Broadway musical Follies. |
| Alexis Denisof is an American actor best known as Wesley Wyndam-Pryce on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, later recurring on How I Met Your Mother, and he is married to Alyson Hannigan. |
| Alexis Smith, born Patricia Anne Smith, was an American visual artist known for collage and installation. |
| Alexis Ren is an American model, actress, entrepreneur, and internet star. |
| Alexis Lafrenière - Alexis Lafreniere is a Canadian winger for the New York Rangers, a former QMJHL rookie of the year, and the first overall pick in the 2020 NHL Draft who debuted in 2021. |
| Alexis Kirke is a British composer and filmmaker based in Plymouth whose interdisciplinary, science inspired work spans quantum mechanics, marine science, stock markets and AI, and he is a senior research fellow at Plymouth University and composer in residence at the Plymouth Marine Institute. |
| Alexis Pascal Gauthier is a French chef and MasterChef judge who trained under Alain Ducasse, earned Michelin stars at Roussillon and Gauthier Soho in London, and later went vegan, converting Gauthier Soho and launching 123 Vegan. |
| Alexis Brimeyer - Alex Ceslaw Maurice Jean Brimeyer was a notorious royal pretender who fabricated titles, wrote the controversial Moi Petit Arriere Fils du Tsar, and sold bogus nobility through sham orders. |
| Alexis Knapp is an American actress best known for playing Stacie Conrad in the Pitch Perfect films, Alexis in Project X, and appearing in the first season of the TBS comedy Ground Floor. |
| Alexis Coe is an American presidential historian, podcast host, exhibition curator, and TV commentator, a senior fellow at New America and New York Times Book Review columnist, and author of the acclaimed Alice and Freda Forever and the bestselling You Never Forget Your First. |
| Alexis Cohen was a two time American Idol contestant, nicknamed Glitter Girl, known for a notorious on air rant at the judges after likening her voice to Grace Slick, Janis Joplin, and Pat Benatar. |
