Nicknames / shortened versions of Alexander

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What are all the nicknames / shortened versions of the name Alexander that people know? Might use a 'J' middle name so could use AJ as an option.

I have a good friend whose name is a diminutive of Alexander (think Alexei), and he has always gotten Lex and Lexi as nicknames.

But the Alexanders I know have always gotten Alex or Al. With the exception of one who was a few years younger than me in school - he got Xander, but it took a while for people to get used to it.

'Eck' is sometimes used as a nn for Alexander in Scotland. It's Scots (rather than Gaelic or Scottish English). Some people used to refer to Alex Salmond as 'Wee Eck'.

The nn has been around since the 19th cent if not before; it's famously used in the Scottish comic strip 'Oor Wullie', first published in 1936 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oor_Wullie