Alex, Alexis, etc

[ladyofmoonlight.livejournal.com]

Been a few days since I did a poll here, so it's about time to post one again :)

I was looking of that list of baby names from the SSA website (http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/) and saw Alexis at number 11. Personally, I can't stand this name, but it got me thinking how weird it is that I like some of the Alex names and hate others. Just wanted to see what everyone else's opinion was. Here's the list of all the female babynames starting with "Alex" that were in the top 1000 names in 2004. For reference, I put the number it is on the list beside it.

[Poll #677115]

For the record, Ethan won the boy's name poll, while Olivia barely won the girl's name poll.

Comments

[cathkitten.livejournal.com]

The thing about Alex is that there are sooo many characters in novels/TV characters with that name that it seems to have lost all personality it might have had. It's not a girl's name. It's not a boy's name. It's a tomboy name. It's a posh name (Alexandrina). With names like Catherine or Elizabeth you think regal, with names like Molly or Trixie you think cute, but with Alex? It just seems like a blah, default, boring name to me now because of the Alex explosion of the late 1990s.