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Meaning & History
Diminutive or folk form of Oleksandr or, less commonly, Oleksiy.
Alternatively, it could have been derived from Slavic names which contained element lest (лесть), meaning "flattery, slyness, indulgence, trickery", - that makes it a cognate of Leszek.
There are 468 cossacks with this name in the 1649 Zaporozhian army register.
Alternatively, it could have been derived from Slavic names which contained element lest (лесть), meaning "flattery, slyness, indulgence, trickery", - that makes it a cognate of Leszek.
There are 468 cossacks with this name in the 1649 Zaporozhian army register.