Aleksa

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Alexa in EC Ecuador, ES Spain.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Aleksa is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name6.3K records spelled Aleksa5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Austria, United States, Serbia, Germany

  Languages: English, German, Western Frisian

  Also written Aleksá

• Spanish given name1.1K records spelled Aleksa3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Serbia, United States, Mexico, Peru

  Also written Aleksã

42 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Aleksa is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Russian, dim fo Aleksei.

  as a word·A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

• In Polish, Alexis

  as a name·Polish Personal Names (CIA Foreign Names Studies, ch. 24)

• In Lithuanian, Plg. brus. Anekca, Onekca : Anekceūi (M. BKpsina, 1966, c. 25), lenk. Oleksy (J. Bystron, 1936, p. 266), Aleks, Aleksa, Oleksa (SSNO

  as a word·Vanagas, Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)

• In Latvian, Sievietes vārds

  as a word·Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 30 years between 1988–2023. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Aleksa Jovanovićb. 1846RSSerbian historian, jurist and politician (1846-1920)
• Aleksa Šantićb. 1868BASerbian poet (1868-1924)
• Aleksa Gajićb. 1974RSartist
• Aleksa Palladinob. 1980USAmerican actress
• Aleksa Bečićb. 1987MEMontenegrin politician
• Aleksa Vukanovićb. 1992RSassociation football player
• Aleksa Šaponjićb. 1992RSSerbian water polo player
• Aleksa Avramovićb. 1994RSSerbian basketball player (born 1994)
• Aleksa Terzićb. 1999RSSerbian association football player
• Aleksa Pejićb. 1999RSSerbian footballer

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 334 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Aleksa?

We estimate roughly 134 thousand people bear Aleksa (counting its spellings and scripts) across 16 countries in our records.

In which country does Aleksa have the most bearers?

We estimate about 116 thousand people bear Aleksa in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled aleksa.

How common is Aleksa compared with other names?

In Montenegro, Aleksa is the 104th most common given name of 834 given names recorded there.

Is Aleksa a male or female name?

Aleksa is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Aleksa mean?

Recorded meaning: Plg. brus. Алекса, Олекса : Алексей (M.