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 [ syll. a-le-xej, al-ex-ej ] The boy name Alexej is pronounced AELEHKEYJH KEY. Alexej is of Old Greek origin, and it is used mainly in Czech and Russian. Alexej is a variant of Alexis (English and German). Aljosha (Russian pet form) is a variant of the name. See also the related form, Alexei (Russian). Alexej is not popular as a baby name for boys. It is not listed within the top 1000 names. Among the group of boy names directly related to Alexej, Alexis (English and German) was the most popular in 2008. Baby names that sound like Alexej include Aiolos (Greek), Alechjo (Esperanto), Alekko (Slavic), Aleko (Slavic), Alekos (Greek), Aleksei (Russian), Aleksey (Russian), Aleksi (Finnish), Aleksy (Polish), Alesi (Spanish), Alesis (Spanish), Alexei (Russian), Alexio (Portuguese), Alexis (English and German), Aljoscha (Russian), Aljosha (Russian), Aloiki (Hawaiian), Aloisius (German), Alojzij (Slavic), and Elias (English, Finnish, German, Greek, Hungarian, Portuguese, Scandinavian, Czech, Dutch, Spanish, and Yiddish). KEY: approx English pronunciation for Alexej: AE as in "at (AE.T)" ; L as in "lee (L.IY)" ; EH as in "Ed (EH.D)" ; K as in "key (K.IY)" ; EY as in "ate (EY.T)" ; JH as in "gee (JH.IY)"   |
