Originally, Lexi was a diminutive of names like Alexandra and Alexis, meaning ‘helper’ or ‘defender’. This goes back to the Greek verb ‘alexo’ for ‘to help, to defend’.
Lexi is a female first name.
The name Lexi isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Lexi ranks 294. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 6 were named Lexi. In the entire USA, approximately 25,104 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Lexi. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Lexi is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Lexi cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #229 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2014. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Lexi, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their daughter. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Lexi seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Lexi was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
714 babies were named Lexi in 2022 - that's 1 in 207,608 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Lexi ranked 407 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter L is a particularly popular initial letter for girls' names – 6.8% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A and S.
With four letters, the name Lexi is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. 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 with 6.8% of all girls' names that begin with an L, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which girls' name with L is the most common... the answer is Linda.
If your name is Lexi 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 Lexi, you can simply say:
Lion
Elephant
Xylophone
Igloo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Lexi
Lexi
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
E
X
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.
L
E
X
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. Lexi sounds like this:
