Entry № 419 · Greek origin

Alexa Alexa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-LEX-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Defender (Alexa Chung; Alexa Demie, Euphoria)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (Greek)

A name that means "defender (alexa chung; alexa demie, euphoria)".

Alexa is a short form of Alexandra — from the Greek Alexandros, alexein (to defend) + aner (man). Amazon Alexa — Amazon's voice assistant, launched November 2014 with the original Echo speaker; as of 2024 has 500 million devices sold worldwide and 100,000+ skills. Princess Alexa of Liechtenstein (born 2008). Alexa Vega is the same as Alexa PenaVega.

Defender (Alexa Chung; Alexa Demie, Euphoria) — a Greek name.

The name in its native script.

Alexa
Transliteration
Alexa
Pronunciation
/ əˈlɛk.sə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Alexa stands.

Alexa does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Alexas before her.

Real people
Alexa Chung
British fashion designer and presenter.
born 1983
Alexa Demie
American actress.
born 1990
Alexa PenaVega
American actress.
born 1988
In fiction
Maddy Perez
Euphoria.
2019

Names connected to Alexa.

The number behind Alexa.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Alexa reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.