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The alexis Surname

alexis Name Meaning and History

French: from the personal name Alexis, ultimately from Greek alexios ‘helping’, ‘defending’. The personal name owed its popularity in the Middle Ages to St. Alexi(u)s, about whom many legends grew up. The historical St. Alexis is said to have lived in the 4th–5th centuries in Edessa (an early center of Christianity in Syria). His cult was also popular in the Eastern Church, which accounts for the frequency of the Russian personal name Aleks(e)i. In North America this surname has probably absorbed Russian and other cognates, mentioned in Hanks and Hodges (1988).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of alexis Families in the US in 1920
Number of alexis families
 23-44
 8-22		 1-7
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John V Alexick and Louise Galmish bh10724 9
Alexick name David Alexick 8
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ALEXIS, Linnie Christine CCayemberg 0
Julia Wesaw (Alexis) Wayne1716 1
Looking for anyone who knows a Jane Darling Alexis Nila_Hernandez 2
Looking for my childhood friend - Mary Kay Alexis - Pittsburgh, PA cmovahed1 0
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