What Does The Name Alexis Mean?

'Alexis' is the male or female derivation of 'Alexius'. It is an acient Greek name with the meaning of "helper" or "defender".

The name alexus means defender from Greek back ground

From the Greek name Αλεξις (Alexis), which meant "helper" or "defender", derived from Greek αλεξω (alexo) "to defend, to help". This was the name of a 3rd-century BC Greek comic poet, and also of several saints. It is used somewhat interchangably with the related name Αλεξιος or Alexius, borne by five Byzantine emperors. In the English-speaking world it is more commonly used as a feminine name.

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Definer

In Greek, it means defender.

The name Alexis means to be very smart, athletic, pretty, popular, and protective.

My name is alexis .. Im a defender =]

Sweet, never un-cool, nice, beautiful, and amazing!!!! :-D

My name is Alexis and I am just now searching to see what it means. I have seen many where it means Helper and Defender. But i am neither. I am not well with helping unless someone asks and I don't defend very much. But i guess you could say I do defend my friends and my little sister. But thanks for helping me discover my name. :]

My name is Alexis, too.  I just found out what my name means and stuff.  My mom named me after a woman who helped her out when she gave birth to me.  I'm happy to know about this stuff, but I also want to know who this woman is so I can thank her for staying with my mom at the hospital.  So, yeah, I guess I through here.

I dont know its my name

My name is alexis. Everywhere i look i see it means defender of people. I guess that does describe me. I'll defend my friends thru thick and thin. My father named me after a character on dynasty. I was born before the car so im very much glad i wasnt named after the car:D

I guess this meaning does describe me because growing up i did not have what you would call a "good" family or such after a while a nuclear family.i was a defender of my father and and helper also... Then when the tables turned i didnt want to but had i must defend my mother. Even if it was a lie i had no choice... But no nonsense about that...this is my middle...my first is mia and hopefully i can find out what it means so i can get the tattoo on my shoulder of my name meaning hopefully in indian because i have 8 different types of indian in my blood...

                                                                                                Thankyou for your time,
                                                                                                                  Mia Alexis...

Alexis means a very awesome and just awesome pearson and beautiful to others and hates her monster sister most of the time about 98 percent of the time and alexis is outgoing and out ragous and has awesome friends and yeah that is all i no so far there is more GOOD things to say!!!!!1

Precious and love

Alexis is a masculine name. It is of Russian, German, French, English or ancient Greek origin. Other variations of the name Alexis are Alexus, Ale, Aleixo, Alejo, Aleksei, Aleksey, Aleksi, Aleksy, Ales, Alessa, Alessia, Alessio, Alexa, Alexei, Alexej, Alexey, Alexia, Alexina, Alexis, Alexis (feminine), Alexius, Alexus, Alyosha, Elek, Lesia, Lexa, Lexia, Lexus and Oleksiy.

Alexei is a Russian diminutive of Alexander and also the first name of Alexis Carrington, one of the leading characters in the television soap opera Dynasty. It was declared the 133rd male name on a list of the top 1, 000 male baby names in the United States and the 13th female name on a list of the top 1, 000 female baby names in the United States in the year 2005.

Overall, it was the 634th male name on a list of the top 1, 000 male baby names in the United States and the 453rd female name on a list of the top 1, 000 female baby names in the United States in the year 1990. Apart from this, it was the 11th male name on a list of the top 100 male baby names in France in 2004, the 69th male name on a list of the top 100 male baby names in Belgium in 2003 and the 36th female name on a list of the top 100 male baby names in British Columbia, Canada in 2005.