Alix
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Alix is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country. It appears chiefly in French and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Medieval French form of Alice or Alexis; Germanic/Greek origin.
- FRFrance1 in 2.2K◐
- BEBelgium1 in 12K
- USUnited States1 in 83K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈35K ●
- Sources
- 327 ●
- 1 in 2.2K ◐
across 11 countries
79K records
Official registry-verified
France
Meaning & origin●
Medieval French form of Alice or Alexis; Germanic/Greek origin.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #436 | 30,510 | 71K rec. | 1 in 2.2K | 31K | Alix | 327 |
| US United States | — | 3,985 | 4.4K rec. | 1 in 83K | 4K | Alix | 197 |
| BE Belgium | — | 1,303 | 1.2K rec. | — | 148 | Alix | 63 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 373 | 346 rec. | — | — | Alix | 63 |
| BR Brazil | — | 360 | — | 1 in 588K | 360 | — | — |
| GP Guadeloupe | #467 | 276 | 14 rec. | — | 5 | Alix | 7 |
| CA Canada | — | 260 | 487 rec. | — | 3 | Alix | 52 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 202 | — | 1 in 25K | 202 | — | — |
| PH Philippines | — | 178 | 373 rec. | — | — | Alix | 10 |
| MQ Martinique | #617 | 156 | 9 rec. | — | 5 | Alix | 10 |
| ES Spain | — | 142 | 379 rec. | 1 in 352K | 147 | Alix | 35 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #794 | 98 | 94 rec. | — | — | Alix | 9 |
Roughly 31K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 2.2K). 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●
- French189K57%
- Spanish58K18%
- English57K17%
- Portuguese5.6K2%
- Dutch3.8K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 188,976 | 57% |
| Spanish | 57,622 | 18% |
| English | 57,251 | 17% |
| Portuguese | 5,619 | 2% |
| Dutch | 3,834 | 1% |
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●
Alix is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Variant of Alex, used only as a feminine name. Its formation has probably been influenced by pAlice.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In English, A female given name from the Germanic languages, an Old French form of Alice.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, a female given name, variant of Alice
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Altération de Aalis, du nom germanique Adalhaid, de adal « noble » et haid « espèce, race ».
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
In French, Origine espagnole; forme originelle d’Alice, signifie « jole ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1905 | 5 |
| 1906 | 5 |
| 1908 | 5 |
| 1915 | 5 |
| 1920 | 5 |
| 1921 | 5 |
| 1922 | 5 |
| 1923 | 5 |
| 1924 | 5 |
| 1925 | 5 |
| 1926 | 5 |
| 1927 | 5 |
| 1928 | 5 |
| 1929 | 5 |
| 1930 | 15 |
| 1931 | 5 |
| 1932 | 5 |
| 1933 | 10 |
| 1934 | 5 |
| 1935 | 10 |
| 1936 | 15 |
| 1937 | 15 |
| 1938 | 15 |
| 1939 | 20 |
| 1940 | 15 |
| 1941 | 20 |
| 1942 | 15 |
| 1943 | 10 |
| 1944 | 15 |
| 1945 | 15 |
| 1946 | 20 |
| 1947 | 25 |
| 1948 | 15 |
| 1949 | 25 |
| 1950 | 25 |
| 1951 | 15 |
| 1952 | 30 |
| 1953 | 30 |
| 1954 | 25 |
| 1955 | 35 |
| 1956 | 40 |
| 1957 | 30 |
| 1958 | 20 |
| 1959 | 30 |
| 1960 | 25 |
| 1961 | 35 |
| 1962 | 40 |
| 1963 | 45 |
| 1964 | 35 |
| 1965 | 20 |
| 1966 | 20 |
| 1967 | 30 |
| 1968 | 20 |
| 1969 | 25 |
| 1970 | 15 |
| 1971 | 15 |
| 1972 | 10 |
| 1973 | 15 |
| 1974 | 10 |
| 1975 | 5 |
| 1976 | 5 |
| 1977 | 10 |
| 1978 | 10 |
| 1979 | 15 |
| 1980 | 5 |
| 1981 | 5 |
| 1982 | 5 |
| 1983 | 5 |
| 1984 | 5 |
| 1985 | 5 |
| 1986 | 5 |
| 1987 | 5 |
| 1988 | 5 |
| 1989 | 5 |
| 1990 | 5 |
| 1991 | 5 |
| 1992 | 5 |
| 1993 | 5 |
| 1997 | 5 |
| 1999 | 5 |
| 2002 | 5 |
| 2008 | 5 |
| 2009 | 5 |
| 2010 | 5 |
| 2013 | 5 |
| 2017 | 5 |
| 2018 | 5 |
| 2019 | 5 |
| 2020 | 5 |
| 2021 | 5 |
| 2022 | 10 |
| 2023 | 10 |
| 2024 | 5 |
RE INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 974 (Réunion) — 93 years between 1905–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Alice of Antiochb. 1110TRnot in their usual nameDaughter of Baldwin II of Jerusalem, Princess of Antioch (12th century)
- Petronilla of Aquitaineb. 1125FRnot in their usual nameFrench noble, sister of Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine
- Alice of Franceb. 1150FRnot in their usual nameFrench princess
- Aliceb. 1193FRnot in their usual nameQueen consort of Cyprus
- Adelaide, Countess of Auxerreb. 1251not in their usual nameCountess of Auxerre (1251-1290)
- Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhineb. 1864DEnot in their usual nameGrand Duchess of Russia (1864–1918)
- Alexandra Feodorovnab. 1872RUnot in their usual nameEmpress consort of Russia (1872–1918)
- Alix, Princess Napoléonb. 1926FRwidow of Louis, Prince Napoléon of France
- Princess Alix of Luxembourgb. 1929LUdaughter of Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, and Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma (1929-2019)
- Alix E. Harrowb. 1989USAmerican science fiction and fantasy author (b. 1989)
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 86 sources across 44 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 31K | #42 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 9.4K | #245 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4K | #3,700 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2K | #14,669 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.5K | #3,700 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.3K | #20,578 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #20,854 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 729 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 360 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 288 | #20,251 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 202 | #1,429 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 191 | #16,781 |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 882 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Alix?
- We estimate roughly 35 thousand people bear Alix (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Alix have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 31 thousand people bear Alix in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled alix.
- Where is Alix most common?
- Alix is densest in France, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is Alix compared with other names?
- In France, Alix is the 436th most common given name of 711,207 given names recorded there.
- Is Alix a male or female name?
- Alix 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 Alix mean?
- Recorded meaning: Medieval French form of Alice or Alexis; Germanic/Greek origin.
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About this data
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Alix” — the 436th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.