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Alexei - Origin and Meaning of the name

Meaning of the name Alexei

[ 3 syll. a-le-xei, al-ex-ei ] The boy name Alexei is pronounced as ahLEHKSEY KEY. Alexei is primarily used in the Russian language and its language of origin is Old Greek.

Alexei is a Russian variation of the English and German name Alexis.

Alexei is also a Russian variation of the Dutch, English, German, Hungarian, and Slavic name Alexander. A variant of Alexei is the Russian pet form Aljoscha. See also the related form, the Czech and Russian Alexej.

Alexei is not regularly used as a baby name for boys. It is not ranked within the top 1000 names. In 2008, among the group of boy names directly linked to Alexei, the Dutch, English, German, Hungarian, and Slavic Alexander was the most popular.

Baby names that sound like Alexei include the Greek Aiolos, the Esperanto Alechjo, the Slavic Alekko, the Slavic Aleko, the Greek Alekos, the Russian Aleksei, the Russian Aleksey, the Finnish Aleksi, the Polish Aleksy, the Spanish Alesi, the Spanish Alesis, the Czech and Russian Alexej, the Portuguese Alexio, the English and German Alexis, the Russian Aljoscha, the Russian Aljosha, the Hawaiian Aloiki, the German Aloisius, the Slavic Alojzij, and the English, Finnish, German, Greek, Hungarian, Portuguese, Scandinavian, Czech, Dutch, Spanish, and Yiddish Elias.

KEY: English pronunciation for Alexei: AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)" ; L as in "lee (L.IY)" ; EH as in "Ed (EH.D)" ; K as in "key (K.IY)" ; S as in "sea (S.IY)" ; EY as in "ate (EY.T)"


 
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