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The first name 
Lexis

Lexis is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.

When two girls called Lexis meet...

… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Lexis is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 girls have been named Lexis. In the SmartGenius ranking, Lexis is #4,652 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Lexis.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Lexis

Lexis -
keeping with the times

Lexis is a phenomenon of Generation X and Y. Previously, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Schoolkids of the early 20th century probably didn't have classmates named Lexis - until this very name unexpectedly cried out for attention and peaked in popularity at rank number 880 in 1998. Although it has never reached the top 100 list, this girls' name seems to have been in vogue for a while, which makes Lexis really in tune with her generation.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Lexis was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Lexis in 2022 – for some parents the most beautiful name in the world

10 babies were named Lexis in 2022 - that's 1 in 14,823,190 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Lexis ranked 8,408 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.

Lexis -
special, but at home in many states

You may not know anyone named Lexis, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 32 states are home to women and girls named Lexis. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few women and girls named Lexis living in one state or another. If your name is Lexis and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Florida, which has the most people named Lexis relative to the population, you still have to ask 39,599 women and girls their names before you hear Lexis as an answer just once.

Lexis has 5 letters 
and begins with an L

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 Lexis 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.

Other names with 
L, e, x, i and s

If you take all the letters in the name Lexis – L, e, x, i and s – and put them together again, you can form another name, such as Ixsel.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Lexis

If your name is Lexis 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...

This is how you spell the name Lexis

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Lexis, you can simply say:

Lion

Elephant

Xylophone

Igloo

Sun

This is how the name Lexis is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Lexis in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Lexis

Lexis

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Lexis

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Lexis is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

L
E
X
I
S

Have you ever waved the name Lexis

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
S

Beeping like crazy...

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. Lexis sounds like this: