Alex

Alex is a name that travels well. A shortening of Alexander, from the Greek alexandros, "defender of men," it lands with the same clean confidence in a Moscow classroom, a London pub, or a Texas backyard. Two syllables, unfussy, universally pronounced, it's been a fixture in the American top 300 for over a century. Alex doesn't strive. It simply works, equally at home on a boy, a girl, a CEO, or a kid at a lemonade stand. The name says: I can be whatever room I walk into. Roughly one boy in a thousand, and still quietly everywhere.