Aleksey
Sign in to saveAlexey ( ) is a Russian male given name derived from the Greek Aléxios (), meaning "Defender", and thus of the same origin as the Latin Alexius.
Key facts
- Given name2.name
- Alexey
- Given name2.gender
- Male
- Given name2.meaning
- Defender
- Given name2.language
- Russian
- Given name2.origin
- Greek
- Given name2.related names
- Alexios, Alexius, Alexis
- Given name2.variant forms
- Alexei, Aleksei, Aleksey
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- male given name
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- transliteration or transcription
- 阿列克谢
- native label
- Алексей
- language of work or name
- Kazakh
- Commons category
- Alexey (given name)
- writing system
- Cyrillic script
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Encyclopedic overview
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- People with the given name
- Royalty and historical figures
- Modern figures
- Fictional characters
- Folklore
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- References
Alexey ( ) is a Russian male given name derived from the Greek Aléxios (), meaning "Defender", and thus of the same origin as the Latin Alexius.
Similar Ukrainian and Belarusian names are romanized as Oleksii (Олексій) and Aliaksiej (Аляксей), respectively.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aleksey” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.