Meaning in the sources
Source-reportedMeaning: “defender”
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- NameStoria: Alexia (cited meaning “defender”)see the cited name page · retrieved 2026-10-15
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01 / Meaning & origin
Aléxia is recorded as a first given name in France's civil registration statistics (INSEE, 1900–2025), given to girls; no dictionary entry is in our sources yet. It is the statistics spelling of Alexia, for which the cited sources give the meaning “defender”.
Meaning: “defender”
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France (France métropolitaine et départements-régions d'outre-mer; avant 2012 France hors Mayotte), 2021: 5 girls (rank 5903).
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03 / By the numbers
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1900–2025 Spelling: ALÉXIA
Recorded category girls
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Source: Insee · Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
« VALEUR : fréquence arrondie au multiple de 5 le plus proche ». « La mise en place de cet arrondi, à partir de la diffusion de juillet 2025, est motivée par la variabilité de quelques unités d'une année à l'autre des fréquences et par la mise en œuvre des obligations relatives au secret statistique. » « En raison des arrondis, la somme des effectifs départementaux peut différer des effectifs régionaux ou nationaux. » Every observation is therefore valueStatus=rounded (verified: 0 rows with a count that is not a multiple of 5).
Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.
| Year | Births | Rank | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1901 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1902 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1903 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1904 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1905 | no value | no value | not covered |
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| 1907 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1908 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1909 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1910 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1911 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1912 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1913 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1914 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1915 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1916 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1917 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1918 | no value | no value | not covered |
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| 1920 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1921 | no value | no value | not covered |
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| 1925 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1926 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1927 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1928 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1929 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1930 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1931 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1932 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1933 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1934 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1935 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1936 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1937 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1938 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1939 | no value | no value | not covered |
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| 1941 | no value | no value | not covered |
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| 1945 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1946 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1947 | no value | no value | not covered |
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| 1949 | no value | no value | not covered |
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| 1951 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1952 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1953 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1954 | no value | no value | not covered |
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| 1958 | no value | no value | not covered |
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| 1960 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1961 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1962 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1963 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1964 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1965 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1966 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1967 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1968 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1969 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1970 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1971 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1972 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1973 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1974 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1975 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1976 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1977 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1978 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1979 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1980 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1981 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1982 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1983 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1984 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1985 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1986 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1987 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1988 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1989 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1990 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1991 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1992 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1993 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1994 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1995 | 5 | 2,993 | rounded |
| 1996 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1997 | 5 | 2,580 | rounded |
| 1998 | 10 | 2,232 | rounded |
| 1999 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2000 | no value | no value | not covered |
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| 2002 | no value | no value | not covered |
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| 2006 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2007 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2008 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2009 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2010 | 5 | 5,293 | rounded |
| 2011 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2012 | 5 | 7,357 | rounded |
| 2013 | 5 | 6,585 | rounded |
| 2014 | 10 | 3,468 | rounded |
| 2015 | 5 | 5,164 | rounded |
| 2016 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2017 | 5 | 5,007 | rounded |
| 2018 | 5 | 5,061 | rounded |
| 2019 | 5 | 4,610 | rounded |
| 2020 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2021 | 5 | 5,903 | rounded |
| 2022 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2023 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2024 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2025 | no value | no value | not covered |
Statistics count the spelling “ALÉXIA” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure births. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.
Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.
Released 2026-07-16 · Retrieved 2026-10-14 · LO-2.0
Read our methodology04 / Through time
Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.
Alexia— “helper”
…His church at Rome, called St. Alessio, gives a title to a cardinal; and his day, July 17th, is observed by the Greeks as well as the Romans; and yet so strange is his history that it almost seems as if it might have been one of those instances in which an allegory acquired the name of a real saint, and attached itself to him as a legend. Alessio has in consequence always been an Italian name, and with the family of the Komnenoi, Alexios came into use among the Byzantine…
…His church at Rome, called St. Alessio, gives a title to a cardinal; and his day, July 17th, is observed by the Greeks as well as the Romans; and yet so strange is his history that it almost seems as if it might have been one of those instances in which an allegory acquired the name of a real saint, and attached itself to him as a legend. Alessio has in consequence always been an Italian name, and with the family of the Komnenoi, Alexios came into use among the Byzantine Greeks, with whom it was very frequent. Alexia is often found as a lady’s name in old records and accounts of the middle ages; but it is apparently intended merely as the Latin equivalent for Alice, which we shall show by-and-by to have had an entirely different origin.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part III, Chapter IV (Historical Greek Names Consisting Of Epithets), Section II (Alexander, &c) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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06 / Behind the facts
Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
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