Alexa is a female form of Alex. It is variously a given name in its own right or a short form of Alexandra, both of which come from

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name Alexandros. It can be broken down into ''alexo'' meaning "to defend" and ''ander'' meaning "man", making both Alexa and Alexandra mean "defender of man". The similarly-spelled name Aleksa is a South Slavic masculine name.

Modern popularity

In the United States, the name Alexa first appeared on the chart of the top 1,000 most popular baby girl names in the year 1973. It stayed in the lower ranks of the top 1000 until 1986 when it jumped from number 815 to number 431. Popularity continued to climb and Alexa was ranked in the top 100 in the mid-1990s. According to the Social Security Administration, its highest popularity, 39th, was achieved in 2006. The name's popularity decreased rapidly after Amazon picked it as the wake word of its voice service

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, which was released worldwide in 2016.

Notable people with the name

Given name

* Alexa Alemanni, American actress *

Alexa Chung Alexa Chung (born 5 November 1983) is a British television presenter, model, internet personality, writer, and fashion designer. She wrote the book ''It'' (2013). Her fashion label Alexa Chung, stylized , launched in May 2017 and closed in 2022 ...

(born 1983), British TV presenter * Alexa Curtis (singer) (born 2004), Australian singer, winner of The Voice Kids Australia * Alexa Curtis (entrepreneur), American entrepreneur and writer *

Alexa Davalos Alexa Davalos Dunas (born May 28, 1982) is an American actress. Her early role as Gwen Raiden on the fourth season of the TV series '' Angel'' (2002–03) was followed by some Hollywood films, including '' The Chronicles of Riddick'' (2004), '' ...

(born 1982), French-American actress *

Alexa Davies Alexa Davies is a Welsh actress best known for her roles as Aretha in '' Raised by Wolves'', Kate in ''Detectorists'' and Yvonne in ''Cradle to Grave'', and as young Rosie in ''Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again''. She grew up in Rhyl Rhyl (; c ...

(born 1995), British actress * Alexa Dectis (born 1993), American actress *

Alexa Demara Alexa Demara is an American entrepreneur, writer and actress. She has won numerous awards for modeling, acting, art, writing and academics. On ''Extra'', she was interviewed about her career on the Starsightings segment and was publicized for ...

(born 1989), American actress * Alexa Fairchild (born 1994), Belgian equestrian athlete * Alexa Glatch (born 1989), American tennis player *

Alexa Goddard Alexa Goddard (born 21 December 1990) is an English pop and R&B singer from Blackwater, Hampshire previously signed to Roc Nation. Born in Camberley, Surrey, Goddard was spotted singing at a talent contest at the age of 14. From 2007 she featu ...

(born 1988), British singer * Alexa Hampton (born 1971), American entrepreneur * Alexa Havins (born 1980), American actress *

Alexa Hepburn Alexa Hepburn is professor of communication at Rutgers University, and honorary professor in conversation analysis in the Social Sciences Department at Loughborough University. Life Alexa Hepburn was born in Leicester. Because her father was a te ...

, Reader in Conversation Analysis in the Social Sciences Department at Loughborough University *

Alexa Hirschfeld Alexa Hirschfeld is an entrepreneur. Hirschfeld co-founded the online invitation website Paperless Post. Work Alexa and James Hirschfeld, started Paperless Post while he was a student at Harvard and she was working in New York City in 2008. P ...

(born 1985), American entrepreneur *

Alexa Hunt Shirl Henke is an American best-selling author of contemporary and historical romance novels. She has eclectic tastes and has written historical, contemporary, western, and regency-themed books. She also writes mystery novels using the pen n ...

(born 1942), American author * Alexa Ilacad (born 2000), Filipina actress * Alexa Ray Joel (born 1985), singer-songwriter and daughter of Billy Joel * Alexa Junge, American screenwriter *

Alexa Kenin Alexa Jordan Kenin (February 16, 1962 – September 10, 1985) was an American actress known for her supporting roles in several films released during the 1980s, including '' Little Darlings'' (1980), '' Honkytonk Man'' (1982), and '' Pretty ...

(1962–1985), American actress *

Alexa Komarnycky Alexandra Komarnycky (born October 5, 1989) is a Canadian competitive swimmer. At the 2008 Olympics, she competed in the women's 400 m individual medley, finishing in 29th place. At the 2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (o ...

(born 1989), Canadian swimmer *

Alexa Loo Alexa Loo (born October 6, 1972) is a Canadian snowboarder and city council member for Richmond, British Columbia City Council. As a snowboarder, she competed in the parallel giant slalom at the 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics. Snowboarding caree ...

(born 1972), Canadian snowboarder * Alexa McDonough (born 1944), Canadian politician *

Alexa Moreno Alexa Citlali Moreno Medina (born 8 August 1994) is a Mexican former artistic gymnast. She is the 2018 World bronze medalist on vault, the first Mexican female gymnast to medal at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. She represented Mex ...

(born 1994), Mexican artistic gymnast * Alexa Nikolas (born 1992), American actress * Alexa von Porembsky (1906–1981), German actor *

Alexa Sand Alexa Kristen Sand is an American art historian and educator. A scholar of medieval art, Sand is currently Professor of Art History at Utah State University. Career Sand graduated from Williams College with a Bachelor of Arts in Art History and ...

, American art history professor *

Alexa Scimeca Alexa Paige Knierim, née Scimeca (born June 10, 1991) is an American pair skater. With her skating partner, Brandon Frazier, she is the 2022 World champion, a 2022 Olympic silver medalist in the figure skating team event, the 2022 Grand Prix ...

(born 1991), American pair skater *

Alexa Still Alexa Still (born 1962) is a New Zealand-born flutist based in Oberlin, Ohio, where she is an Associate Professor of Flute at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Still studied in the US with Samuel Baron at SUNY Stony Brook (MM, DMA) and with Tho ...

, Australian musician * Alexa Stirling (1897-1977), American golf player * Alexa Suelzer (born 1918), American author * Alexa Vega (born 1988), Colombian American actress * Alexa Viscius, American multi-disciplinary artist * Alexa Von Tobel (born 1984), founder and CEO of LearnVest.com * Alexa Weber Morales, American Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter, editor * Alexa Wilkinson, American singer and musician * Alexa Woodward, American indie/folk singer and songwriter

Fictional

Alexa Bliss Alexis Cabrera (née Kaufman; born August 9, 1991) is an American professional wrestler. She is currently signed to WWE, where she performs on the Raw (WWE brand), Raw WWE brand extension, brand under the ring name Alexa Bliss. In 2013, Bliss ...

, ring name of professional wrestler Alexis Kaufman (born 1991) *Alexa Lexington from '' MySims'', '' MySims Kingdom'', and '' MySims Agents'' * Alexa Pappadopoulos, a character from the ''

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'' teen drama franchise. *Alexa, one of the characters from the

Diva Starz Diva Starz was a series of talking fashion dolls created and released by Mattel in October 2000. They are similar in design to MGA's Bratz and Tiger Electronics' Furby. Alexa, Nikki, Summer—later replaced by Miranda—and Tia were offered ...

toy line * Alexa Rivera, also known as Fuerza, character in ''The Flash'' *

Alexa Smith The following are characters who first appeared in the BBC soap opera '' EastEnders'' during 2012 listed by order of first appearance. New characters were introduced by Bryan Kirkwood, executive producer. He stepped down from the role in April. ...

, character in ''EastEnders'' *

Alexa Woods This article is a list of characters and actors from the '' Alien vs. Predator'' franchise spanning two films: ''Alien vs. Predator'' (2004) and '' Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem'' (2007). These films brought together the fictional storylines and cr ...

, character in ''Alien vs. Predator''

Surname

* Dan Alexa (born 1979), Romanian footballer * Kate Alexa (born 1988), Australian singer * AleXa (born 1996), South Korean American singer

References

thinkbabynames.com on Alexa

WikiName on Alexa
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