Alexis (first name)
Alexis is a male and female given name . Originally, however, it was a purely male first name and came into vogue as a first name for women , especially in the USA during the series Denver-Clan through the character Alexis (played by Joan Collins ) in the early 1980s.
Meaning and origin
Alexis is derived from the Greek name Ἀλέξις Aléxis meaning "helper" or "defender", which in turn was derived from the verb form ἀλέξω alékso with the corresponding meaning.
variants
Variants of the name Alexis are
- Aleix (Catalan)
- Aleixo (Portuguese)
- Alejo (Spanish)
- Alexei , Alexej (Russian)
- Alexios (Greek)
- Alexius (Latin)
name day
Name day is February 17th .
Name bearer
Alexis
- Alexis (Hessen-Philippsthal-Barchfeld) (1829–1905), Landgrave of Hessen-Philippsthal-Barchfeld
- Alexis (singer) (* 1968), German singer
- Alexis (* 1974), Spanish soccer player, see Alejandro Suárez Martín
- Alexis Agrafiotis (* 1970), Greek composer, conductor and pianist
- Alexis Alvanos (* 1980), Greek handball player, see Alexandros Alvanos
- Alexis Amore (* 1978), Peruvian porn actress and erotic model
- Alexis Argüello (1952–2009), Nicaraguan boxer and politician
- Alexis Arquette (1969–2016), American singer and actress
- Alexis Simon Belle (1674–1734), French portrait painter
- Alexis zu Bentheim and Steinfurt (1845–1919), German prince and lieutenant general
- Alexis Bœuf (* 1986), French biathlete
- Alexis Bouvard (1767–1843), French astronomer
- Alexis Bledel (* 1981), American actress
- Alexis-Charles Boucher (1808–1885), Canadian copyist and cabinet maker, portrait and sign painter
- Alexis Bug (* 1973), German actor, director and author
- Alexis Carrel (1873–1944), French surgeon and Nobel Prize winner in medicine
- Alexis de Castillon (1838–1873), French composer
- Alexis Castro (* 1980), Colombian racing cyclist
- Alexis-Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894), French composer and pianist
- Alexis-Armand Charost (1860–1930), Archbishop of Rennes
- Alexis de Chateauneuf (1799–1853), German architect and urban planner
- Alexis-Claude Clairaut (1713–1765), French mathematician, geodesist and physicist
- Alexis Claude-Maurice (* 1998), French football player
- Alexis Contant (1858–1918), Canadian composer, pianist, organist and music teacher
- Alexis Copello (* 1985), Cuban triple jumper
- Alexis Cruz (* 1974), American actor
- Alexis Denisof (* 1966), American actor
- Alexis Dumont (1819–1885), German lawyer and Mayor of Mainz
- Alexis Dworsky (* 1976), German artist
- Alexis Dziena (* 1984), American film and television actress
- Alexis FitzGerald junior (1945–2015), Irish politician
- Alexis FitzGerald senior (1917–1985), Irish solicitor and politician
- Alexis de Garaudé (composer, 1779) (1779–1852), French composer and music teacher
- Alexis de Garaudé (composer, 1821) (1821-1854), French composer
- Alexis Gobet (* 1943), Swiss politician
- Alexis de Guignard, Comte de Saint-Priest (1805-1851), French diplomat and historian
- Alexis Granowsky (1890–1937), Russian theater and film director, see Alexei Michailowitsch Granowski
- Alexis Heck (1830–1908), hotel owner and pioneer of Luxembourg tourism
- Alexis Herman (* 1947), American politician
- Alexis Hornbuckle (* 1985), American basketball player
- Alexis Kara (* 1971), German-Greek actor and comedian
- Alexis Korner (1928–1984), English blues musician
- Alexis Krüger (* 1972), German speaker and puppeteer
- Alexis-Henri-Marie Lépicier (1863–1936), Curia Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
- Alexis Lichine (1913–1989), author and wine merchant
- Alexis Pham Van Lôc (1919–2011), Bishop Emeritus of Kontum
- Alexis Leger (1887–1975), French poet and diplomat, see Saint-John Perse
- Alexis Loret (* 1975), French actor
- Alexis Machuron , mechanic in his uncle Henri Lachambre's balloon factory
- Alexis Martin (1834-1904), French writer
- Alexis Miellet (* 1995), French athlete
- Alexis Thérèse Petit (1791–1820), French physicist
- Alexis Pinturault (* 1991), French ski racer
- Alexis Piron (1689–1773), French lawyer and writer
- Alexis Presse (1883–1965), founder and abbot of Boquen Abbey in Brittany
- Alexis Rodríguez Hernández (* 1977), Spanish racing cyclist
- Alexis de Jesus Castro Rodriguez (* 1980), Colombian racing cyclist, see Alexis Castro
- Alexis von Roenne (1903–1944), Colonel in the General Staff and resistance fighter against National Socialism
- Alexis Roger (1814–1846), French composer
- Alexis Ruano Delgado (* 1985), Spanish football player
- Alexis Rubalcaba (* 1972), Cuban amateur boxer
- Alexis Sánchez (* 1988), Chilean football player
- Alexis Scamoni (1911–1993), German forest and hunting scientist
- Alexis Schwarzenbach (* 1971), Swiss historian, curator and author
- Alexis Smith (1921–1993), Canadian actress
- Alexis Stenvall (1834–1872), Finnish national poet, see Aleksis Kivi
- Alexis Texas (* 1985), American porn actress
- Alexis Thépot (1906–1989), French football player, see Alex Thépot
- Alexis Thorpe (* 1980), American actress
- Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859), French publicist, politician and historian
- Alexis Tsipras (* 1974), Greek politician
- Alexis Vastine (1986-2015), French boxer
- Alexis Vega (* 1997), Mexican soccer player
- Alexis Weissenberg (1929–2012), French pianist
- Alexis Touably Youlo (* 1959), Roman Catholic Bishop of Agboville
- Haley Alexis Pullos (* 1998), American actress
- Alexis Kaufman (* 1991), American wrestler, see Alexa Bliss
Aleixo
- Aleixo de Abreu (1568–1630), Portuguese doctor
- Aleixo Corte-Real (1886–1943), Timorese hero during the Second World War
- Aleixo de Menezes (1559–1617), Archbishop of Goa, Archbishop of Braga and Spanish Viceroy of Portugal
- Aleixo-Platini Menga (* 1987), German sprinter of Angolan origin
- Aleixo das Neves Dias (* 1944), Roman Catholic clergyman and Bishop of Port Blair
See also
- Alexis Sorbas , a novel by Nikos Kazantzakis
- Alexis Sorbas (film) , adaptation of the novel
- Alexis or the vain struggle, a novel by Marguerite Yourcenar
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alexis. In: behindthename.com, accessed December 2, 2019 (English, Greek).
- ↑ ἀλέξω. In: Henry George Liddell , Robert Scott : A Greek-English Lexicon. 1940 (English, Greek; perseus.uchicago.edu [accessed December 2, 2019]).