Alexey
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Alexey |
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| Pronunciation | alek-SAY |
| Gender | Male |
| Meaning | Defender |
| Origin | Russian, from Greek |
| Related names | Alexis, Alexius |
| Wikipedia articles | All pages beginning with Alexey |
Alexey (Russian: Алексе́й) is a male first name of Eastern-European and East Slavic descent, and is pronounced as alek-SAY. It can also be transliterated as "Alexi", "Alexie", "Alexy", "Alexei", "Aleksei", "Aleksey", etc.
It has been commonly westernized as Alexis or Alexius.
Common hypocoristics are Alyosha, Alyoshka, Alyoshenka, Lyosha, Lyoshka, Lyoha, Lyoshenka (Алёша, Алёшка, Алёшенька, Лёша, Лёшка, Лёха, Лёшенька), sometimes rendered as Alesha/Aleshenka in English because of common confusion of Russian letters Е and Ё.
[edit] Persons known by first name Alexey
- Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich, the son of Nicholas II of Russia
- Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich, the son of Peter I the Great of Russia
- Aleshenka, a rumored alien found in Russia
- Aleksei (Russian convert to Judaism)
- See also: Alexeyev, Alexeyevsky, and Alexeyevka
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