Alexey
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Alexey (Russian: Алексе́й) is a male first name of Eastern-European and East Slavic descent, and can be pronounced (a-LEX-e-ay), (a-LEX-i), or (a-LEX-ay). It can also be spelled as "Alexi", "Alexie", "Alexy", "Alexis" or "Alexei", "Aleksei", etc.
Common hypocoristics are Alyosha, Alyoshka, Alyoshenka (Алёша, Алёшка, Алёшенька), sometimes rendered as Alesha/Aleshenka in English because of common confusion of Russian letters Е and Ё.
[edit] Persons known by first name Alexey
- 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)
- See also: Alexeyev, Alexeyevsky, and Alexeyevka
