Alexey

Alexey

Pronunciation	Russian: [ɐlikˈsʲej]
Gender	Male
Origin
Word/name	Russian, from Greek
Meaning	Defender
Other names
Related names	Alexis, Alexius

Alexey (Russian: Алексе́й) is a male first name of Eastern-European and East Slavic descent, and is pronounced [ɐlikˈsʲej]. It is sometimes romanized as "Alexei", "Aleksei", "Aleksey", "Alexej", "Aleksej", etc.

It has been commonly westernized as Alexis or Alexius.

Common hypocoristics are Alyosha, Alyoshka, Alyoshenka, Lyosha, Lyoshka, Lyoha, Lyoshenka (Алёша, Алёшка, Алёшенька, Лёша, Лёшка, Лёха, Лёшенька), sometimes rendered as Alesha/Aleshenka in English.

Persons known by first name Alexey

• Alexei Ponikarovsky, Ukrainian-Canadian professional ice hockey player for the Toronto Maple Leafs
• Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich, the son of Nicholas II of Russia
• Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich, the son of Peter I the Great of Russia
• Aleshenka, a rumored alien found in Russia
• Aleksei (Russian convert to Judaism)
• Alexei Kulechov (born 1979), Russian volleyball player
• Alexey Andreevich Anselm, Russian theoretical physicist
• Alexey Goloborodko, Russian dancing contortionist
• Alexey Pajitnov, inventor of the popular puzzle game, Tetris
• Alexey Rykov, a Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician
• Alexey Karamazov, a fictional character from Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov
• Aleksey Kadochnikov, developed the Russian martial art Systema
• Alexei Yagudin, Russian figure skater
• Alexei Shirov, chess Grandmaster
• Alexei Sayle, English comedian and author
• Alexey Leonov, pioneering Russian cosmonaut, first person to conduct a space walk
• Aleksei Sytsevich, fictional character in the Marvel universe better known as Rhino.

See also: Alexeyev, Alexeyevsky, and Alexeyevka