Lex

Diminutive of Alexander

"defending men"

Updated Mon Jul 14 2025

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Lex Origin and Meaning

The name Lex is a boy's name of Greek origin meaning "defending men".

Cool short form of Alexander, fresher than Alex and less trendy than Xander... for now.

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Lex Hilliard
American football player
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 Gigeroff (c. 1962
2011), Canadian television writer and actor
Lex Goudsmit (1913
1999), Dutch actor
Lex Humphries (1936
1994), jazz drummer
Lex Lang (born 1965)
American voice actor
Lex Law
Scottish former footballer
Lex Luger
ring name of professional wrestler Lawrence Wendell "Larry" Pfohl
Lex McLean
Scottish comedian
Lex Schoenmaker
Dutch former football player and manager
Alexander "Lex" Shrapnel
English actor
Lex Staley
American radio personality of duo Lex and Terry
Lex van den Berghe
American reality TV personality ("Survivor")
Alexis ("Lex") Spyros Niarchos (b. 1991)
son of Daphne Guinness and Spyros Niarchos

Alexander "Lex" Stockhour
character in Lauren DeStefano's "The Internment Chronicles"
Lex Luthor
villain in the Superman series
Lex Marin
character on TV series "Flight 29 Down"
Alexander "Lex" Lexington
mutant in Marvel Comics
Lex
character on TV's The Tribe
Lex
character in the game Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War (1996)
"Lexx
" TV series about a sentient spaceship named Lexx
Lex Mariner
character in The Christmas Invitation by Trisha Ashley