# Aleksey (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/aleksey/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 581 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 571 / 10 (2% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 29, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 5 | 13,585 |
| 1998 | 5 | 14,201 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 23 | 4,228 |
| 2012 | 32 | 3,376 |
| 2013 | 28 | 3,666 |
| 2014 | 19 | 4,876 |
| 2015 | 24 | 4,183 |
| 2016 | 23 | 4,333 |
| 2017 | 28 | 3,782 |
| 2018 | 13 | 6,359 |
| 2019 | 19 | 4,964 |
| 2020 | 13 | 6,308 |
| 2021 | 16 | 5,572 |
| 2022 | 17 | 5,452 |
| 2023 | 15 | 5,940 |
| 2024 | 15 | 5,913 |
| 2025 | 12 | 6,824 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 3 | 4,678 |
| 2014 | 6 | 2,964 |
| 2015 | 5 | 3,373 |
| 2016 | 5 | 3,478 |
| 2018 | 4 | 3,959 |
| 2021 | 3 | 4,789 |
| 2022 | 3 | 4,789 |

## People named Aleksey

- Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, count, Russian poet, novelist and playwright
- Aleksey Spiridonov, athletics competitor (1951–1998)
- Aleksey Nikanchikov, fencer (1940–1972)
- Aleksey Kuznetsov, cross-country skier
- Aleksey Kiselyov, boxer (1938–2005)
- Aleksey Grebnev, chess player
- Aleksey Ryabinin, economist, politician, children's writer
- Patriarch Alexius II, 15th Patriarch of Moscow and all the Rus', the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church (192
- Aleksei Tishchenko, boxer
- Alex Yermolinsky, American chess player
- Alexey Voyevoda, bobsledder
- Alexey Prokurorov, cross-country skier

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.