Name: Lex
Gender: Male
Usage: Lex is a popular first name. It is more often used as a boy (male) name.
People having the name Lex are in general originating from Greece, Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Variants: For another variant of the name Lex across the world, see Alexander.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Lex is: Defending men, A word.
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Numerology of the first name Lex: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 5. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: adventurous, energetic, curious, visionary, magnetic, expansive.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Extroverted, Adventurous
Ruling planet: Mercury
Colors: White, Gray
Gemstones: Diamond
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The name Lex is ranked on the 2,855th position of the most used names. It means that this name is commonly used.
We estimate that there are at least 127400 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.002% of the population. The name Lex has three characters. It means that it is relatively short-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Lex for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
The name day of Lex is 3 March.
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History and Origin
Lex is a given name. It is a common male name in the Netherlands, and is sometimes short for Alexander or Alexandra.
People bearing the name include:
- Lex Banning (1921-1965), Australian lyric poet
- Lex Barker (1919-1973), American actor
- Lex Davison (1923-1965), Australian racing driver
- Lex van Delden (1919-1988), Dutch composer
- Lex Frieden, disability activist and professor
- Lex Gigeroff (c. 1962-2011), Canadian television writer and actor best known as co-creator of the science fiction series Lexx
- Lex Goudsmit (1913-1999), Dutch actor
- Robert A. Green (1892-1973), U.S. Representative from Florida
- Lex Humphries (1936-1994), jazz drummer
- Lex Lang (born 1965), American voice actor
- Lex Lasry (born 1948), Australian lawyer and a judge on the Supreme Court of Victoria
- Lex Law, Scottish former footballer
- Lex Luger (born 1958), ring name of long-time professional wrestler Lawrence Wendell "Larry" Pfohl
- Lex McLean (1908-1975), Scottish comedian
- Lex Schoenmaker (born 1947), Dutch former football player and manager
- Alexander Lex Shrapnel (born 1979), English actor
- Lex Staley, half of the syndicated morning team Lex and Terry
- Lex van den Berghe a participant in the television show Survivor: Africa
Fictional characters so named include:
- Lex Luthor, nemesis of Superman
- Alexander Lexington, Marvel Comics mutant
- Alexis "Lex" Murphy in the Jurassic Park novel and film franchise
- Lex, a fictional character in the TV series The Tribe (1999-2003) played by Caleb Ross
- Lex, in the game Fire Emblem
English: short form of Alex. The minor vogue for this name, and the rhyming Dex and Tex, may have been inspired by the now distinctly old-fashioned Rex.
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