Alexa

Where Alexa comes from

* From Alex + -a. A feminine form of Alex. * A female given name, clipping of Alexandra.
— Wiktionary's entry for Alexa
  • Ancient Greek
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1916
    First appearance
    #4,417 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1982
    Alexa Davalos born
    French-American actress
  3. 1988
    Alexa PenaVega born
    American actress
  4. 2015
    Peak, #32
    6,053 babies named Alexa — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2019
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #139.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Ancient Greek.
  • Female equivalent of Alex.
  • Diminutive of Alexandra.
  • A speech recognition and intelligent personal assistant application developed by Amazon.com, Inc.
Namesakes
  • Alexa PenaVega · American actress, born 1988
  • Alexa Davalos · French-American actress, born 1982
  • Alexa Chung · English television presenter, model and contributing editor, born 1983
  • Alexa Nikolas · American actress, born 1992
  • Alexa Glatch · American tennis player, born 1989

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.