Alexa

Girl
5 letters

English Helper, defender. variant of Alexander.

Greek Defender of men, helper. Alexander the Great was a 4th century Macedonian king for whom the Egyptian city of Alexandria is named.

Hungarian Defender of man.

Feminine form of Alexander

Alexa is a girl’s name of English, Greek and Hungarian origin. Meaning in English: Helper, defender. variant of Alexander. Meaning in Greek: Defender of men, helper. Alexander the Great was a 4th century Macedonian king for whom the Egyptian city of Alexandria is named. Meaning in Hungarian: Defender of man. Alexa is a feminine form of Alexander. The name has 5 letters.

Related names

Alethea

Greek

Truth. Alethea became popular in the early 17th century when the future King Charles I courted Spanish Maria Aletea. Sometimes confused with the unrelated Althea.'Truthful.' Mythological goddess of truth.

Aletheia

Greek

Honesty.

Alethia

Greek

Truthful. Mythological goddess of truth.

Alex

English Greek

Abbreviation of Alexander defender of mankind. A feminine form of Alexander meaning defender of men, used in Britain since early 13th century. British King Edward VII's wife Princess Alexandra of Denmark.

Alexander

Biblical Greek Literary Swedish

One who assists men Defender of men. Alexander the Great was a 4th century Macedonian king for whom the Egyptian city of Alexandria is named. Eight popes and three Russian emperors have been named Alexander. A literary name from Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part 2, where it belongs to alexander Iden, a Kentish gentleman. 'The History of Troilus and Cressida' Servant to Cressida. Defender of man.

Alexandina

Greek

Defender of mankind.

Alexandra

English Greek Hungarian Italian Swedish

Defender of mankind. A feminine form of Alexander meaning defender of men, used in Britain since early 13th century; it became popular after the marriage of the 1863 marriage of future King Edward VII to Princess Alexandra of Denmark. Defender of man.

Alexandras

Greek

Defender of man.