The name Lexie is a diminutive of Alexandra or Alexis, meaning ‘defender of men’ or ‘helper, defender’. Both names are of Greek origin an derived from the verb ‘alexo’ meaning ‘to defend, to help’. Alexandra is the feminine form of Alexandros.
Lexie is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Lexie 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, Lexie ranks 643. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 3 were named Lexie. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Lexie.
The name Lexie is a diminutive of Alexandra or Alexis, meaning ‘defender of men’ or ‘helper, defender’. Both names are of Greek origin an derived from the verb ‘alexo’ meaning ‘to defend, to help’. Alexandra is the feminine form of Alexandros.
Lexie has been... a given name in the US since the 1880s and became more popular starting in the 1990s.
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 five letters, the name Lexie is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five 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 Lexie 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 Lexie, you can simply say:
Lion
Elephant
Xylophone
Igloo
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Lexie
Lexie
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
E
X
I
E
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
E
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. Lexie sounds like this:
