Alexei is a male first name. In some cases it's also given to girls.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Alexei is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 boys have been named Alexei. In the SmartGenius ranking, Alexei is #2,675 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Alexei.
In fact, the name Alexei did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Alexei seemed to be more popular than ever in 2000. Although the name never ranked higher than #1,777, 54 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Alexei, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Alexei was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Alexei a few times. Among all newborn boys it ranked #2,313 - with a total of 51 baby boys. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving boys with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.
In not even one in five states you will find more than 4 men and boys with the name Alexei. This first name might not be completely unknown, but in the entire United States, there are about 341 Americans who bear this name. And these 341 men and boys named Alexei live in no more than 7 different states, including for example California, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey and New York. In the other 42 states, there are either none or less than a handful boys and men with this name (to explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five men with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Alexei lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Alexei and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Alexei relative to its male population is California. And even there, only one male in 115,828 would raise his hand if you asked, who is called Alexei.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is a very popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 9.0% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter J is more common for boys' names.
With six letters, the name Alexei is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 9.0% of all boys' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the boys' names that start with an A, Anthony is the most common.
If your name is Alexei and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Alexei, you can simply say:
Apple
Lion
Elephant
Xylophone
Elephant
Igloo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Alexei
Alexei
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
L
E
X
E
I
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
A
L
E
X
E
I
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Alexei sounds like this:
