How many Alex's do you know?

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I know none, not one Alexander and not one Alexandra and it is the name we have chosen (depending on gender) for LO, but just recently I've seen Alexander/Alexander/Alexia on a lot of names threads so was wondering if it's goign to suddenly be everywhere if I use it.

none! not at nursery or school.

3 in dd1's class - but they are 6 year olds

none at nursey or the school although DH is Alex

There are a couple of Alex's at the school I work.

Alexs sorry pedants.

A 34 year old
A 7 year old
A 4 year old (Alexandra)
A 5 month old

Bleedin' hundreds

But even more Joshuas.

And Olivers.

3 hana?
Boys or girls?

One nephew, one BIL, and three friends' sons.

I know 2. Both second children from my post-natal group, and both born within 6 months of each other.
DS (who is the eldest of these three boys) was nearly an Alex. But is now Tom Alexander. Obviously didn't try and avoid popular names, just had a soft spot for Tom (Alexander is a family name so was always going to feature). I know of at least 4 Toms the same age as DS. But I still love the name (and he's a proper Tom i.e. not Thomas).

meeeeeeeeeeee. and i know a few small ones (almost all boys).

Oh, sorry, forgot ages. Range from nearly 2 to nearly 3 years old.

a four year old boy
a 12 year old girl
two 15 year olds (1 boy/1 girl)
a 35 year old woman

Named my son Alexander 5 months ago and knew of none before. I now know an Alexa and a friend has used it for her sons middle name and the latest royal is James Alexander.

Children or Adults?

I know 4 adults, one teenager and one toddler called Alessandro.

Its a family name of mine and through the generations we have had so many diminutives, never Alex though! (have had a Sandy (my uncle) , Lexy (my great grandfather!) and a Xan

My gorgeous 11 week old goddaughter is Alexandra (Alex for short). I don't know any other girls called Alex but do know a couple of older boys.

(So out of the 6 boys born as second children in our post-natal group, 2 are called Alexander/Alex and 1 has Alexander as a second name - ds.)

Personally, I think that if you like the name you shouldn't deliberately not use it just in case you come across other babies with the same name. But then I had only 2 names that dh and I could agree on for a boy.

dd i changed her name to a derivative when she was 2 as there were so many

she is now 13

her name now a la baron- cohen

I think we are 100% decided on it for a boy, about 80% for a girl, whether a million people have it or not, just wondered really.
DD is an Ella and there were none when I named her, but seven years later I know about 10.

It is quite a common name according to the charts of names although Alexandra perhaps less so than Alexander. Alexandra was one of our girl choices but we didn't have a girl so that was that!

DS1 aged 7, has two in his class and my friend also has a DS called Alex.

DS2 who is 4 doesn't know any.

Sasha is short for Alexandra - what about that if you feel there are too many Alex's.

For shorter versions I like Lexie for a girl as well as Alex but I've seen that mentioned a lot too. For a boy I think it would definitely be Alex unless he decided he wanted to be Xander when older.

I know quite a few Alexs ranging from 23 down to 2.

I remember a boy in my year at primary school called Alexander who had a sister called Alexandra. They obviously didn't shorten their names!

I love the name but 2 very close friends little boys are Alex so its not an option for us.

don't know any.

alexander aged 32
alexander aged 3
alexandra aged 3