Aleksejs

given name · Latvian · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Aleksejs is a given name, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country, where it is the 25th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Latvian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A transliteration of the Russian male given name Алексе́й (Alekséj).

rarermore common
  • LVLatvia1 in 171
  • ISIceland1 in 13K
  • EEEstonia1 in 15K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈11K

across 6 countries

Sources
86

2.1K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 171

Latvia

Meaning & origin

A transliteration of the Russian male given name Алексе́й (Alekséj)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Aleksejs is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
LV Latvia#2511,0331.5K rec.1 in 17111KAleksejs86
GB United Kingdom564166 rec.listedAleksejs54
FI Finland3417 rec.339Aleksejs3
EE Estonia#96328560 rec.80Aleksejs9
US United States199171 rec.Aleksejs56
RU Russia11579 rec.Aleksejs35
PL Poland941 in 407K94
SE Sweden7514 rec.1 in 136K75Aleksejs12
ES Spain6910 rec.1 in 725K69Aleksejs9
NO Norway5132 rec.400Aleksejs15
LT Lithuania4239 rec.Aleksejs17
CY Cyprus324 rec.Aleksejs6

Roughly 11K people in Latvia bear this name (about 1 in 171). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages

  • Latvian16K81%
  • English6453%
  • Polish4182%
  • Norwegian Bokmål4002%
  • Finnish3552%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Latvian16,34781%
English6453%
Polish4182%
Norwegian Bokmål4002%
Finnish3552%

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

Other recorded senses

Aleksejs is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latvian, Vīrieša vārds

    as a wordTēzaurs.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

0204060201020152020

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Aleksejs in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 2009–2020
Yearrecords
200911
201015
201121
201224
201330
201430
201531
201638
201738
201843
201951
202052

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)12 years between 2009–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name

16001700180019002000Alexei I of Russia, b. 1629Maxim Gorki, b. 1868Alexei Rykov, b. 1881Alexei Kosygin, b. 1904Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, b. 1928Patriarch Alexius II, b. 1929Aleksei Arkhipovich Leonov, b. 1934Alexey Ekimov, b. 1945Alexei Navalny, b. 1976Alex Sparrow, b. 1988
  • Alexei I of Russiab. 1629RUnot in their usual nameTsar of Russia (1645–1676)
  • Maxim Gorkib. 1868RUnot in their usual nameRussian and Soviet writer (1868–1936)
  • Alexei Rykovb. 1881RUnot in their usual namePremier of Russia and the Soviet Union (1881-1938)
  • Alexei Kosyginb. 1904RUnot in their usual nameSoviet politician (1904-1980)
  • Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosovb. 1928RUnot in their usual nameSoviet, Russian and American theoretical physicist
  • Patriarch Alexius IIb. 1929EEnot in their usual name15th Patriarch of Moscow and all the Rus', the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church (1929–2008)
  • Aleksei Arkhipovich Leonovb. 1934RUnot in their usual nameSoviet pilot and cosmonaut, first human to conduct a spacewalk (1934-2019)
  • Alexey Ekimovb. 1945RUnot in their usual nameRussian physicist
  • Alexei Navalnyb. 1976RUnot in their usual nameRussian jurist and opposition leader (1976-2024)
  • Alex Sparrowb. 1988RUnot in their usual nameRussian singer and actor

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

Attested in 18 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Aleksejs
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
LV LatviaPMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register)11K
LV LatviaPMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup)11K#29
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)400#2,923
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)339#2,541
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)202694#2,165
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)86#2,155
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)80#768
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)75#10,326
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)69#21,270
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202052
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201951
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)46#13,627

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 37 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Aleksejs?
We estimate roughly 11 thousand people bear Aleksejs (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
In which country does Aleksejs have the most bearers?
We estimate about 11 thousand people bear Aleksejs in Latvia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled aleksejs.
Where is Aleksejs most common?
Aleksejs is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 171 people carrying it.
How common is Aleksejs compared with other names?
In Latvia, Aleksejs is the 25th most common given name of 17,921 given names recorded there.
Is Aleksejs a male or female name?
Aleksejs is a male 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 Aleksejs mean?
Recorded meaning: A transliteration of the Russian male given name Алексе́й (Alekséj)
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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Aleksejs” — the 25th most common given name in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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