Alex
Name Origin
Name Origin
Discover the Alex
Explore the lives of your ancestors
Your name is all it takes to get started
Ready to discover the Alex story? Alex Born: Father Born: Mother Born:
Explore the lives of your ancestors We'll help you connect with your ancestors and explore their lives
Uncover your family tree Your name is all it takes to get started, and it's FREE!
Did you know? What does the Alex surname reveal about your family history?
The earliest occurrence of the Alex surname in our family history documents is from 1573, and we currently have 13,996 records where Alex appears . Here are a few more facts to get you started…
Alexes had very few recorded occupations in the 1901 Census.
In the early 1900s Alexes were most likely to live in Lancashire.
It seems all Alexes were law-abiding. We found no criminal records.
6 Alexes served in the First World War.
Start building your Alex family story Become one of the millions of users who are building their family tree with us. Create yours today for free.
Discover Alex records Alexes in military recordsWere your ancestors war heroes?
Alexes in census recordsWhere did your family live & what did they do?
Alexes in convict recordsDid your family have a brush with the law?
Alexes in parish recordsWhere were your family born, married, and buried?
{"hostname":"www.findmypast.co.uk","relay":[],"user":{"ip_address":"54.81.197.24","featureToggleClientKey":"577cda73711b1406ea0013c1","toggles":{"uk-hide-ppv":true,"ent-edit-pencils-in-profile":true,"worldtree-profile":false,"remove-chevrons-from-atoz-page-region-filters":false,"fmp-single-click-payment":true,"us-homepage-dashboard-experiment":"excluded","homepage-dashboard-experiment":"excluded","fmp-us-new-products-experiment":false,"safe-tutorial-experiment":true,"opted-out-of-newsletter-by-default-when-registering-toggle":true,"hints-in-search-results":true,"view-master-notifications-toggle":true,"hint-paywall":"excluded","fmp-view-all-notifications-dropdown-link":true,"safe-search-results-tutorial-toggle":true,"fmp-ie-notifications-toggle":true,"search-results-quick-edit-counts":true,"record-search-zendesk-live-chat":false,"hint-management":true,"transcripts-served-by-titan":false,"gdpr-email-preferences-legacy":false,"filter-results-mobile-improvements":false,"fmp-au-notifications-toggle":true,"fmp-us-notifications-toggle":true,"search-button-result-count-switch":true,"ent-new-tree-edit-mode-for-name-field":false,"view-all-notifications-mark-all-as-read-toggle":true,"mark-all-master-notifications-as-read":true,"tweety-homepage-dashboard-experiment":false,"updates-to-main-registration-ui":false,"opentree-family-search-add-modal":false,"safe-help-button-on-search-page":true,"separate-facebook-component-sign-in-and-registration-functions":true,"worldtree-profile-changelog":true,"surname-page-cta-experiment":"familyTree","cross-domain-experiment-test":true,"open-tree-ugc-info-modal":true,"findmyhouse-map":true,"new-entitlement-refactor-test":true,"safe-help-button-on-results-page":true,"safe-atoz-instructional-content":true,"include-master-notifications-in-count":true,"us-homepage-hero-experiment":true,"library-portal":false,"fmp-uk-notifications-toggle":true,"homepage-search-button-result-count":true,"ci-integration-test":false},"member_id":null,"ld_key":"5a158949-8e56-42a9-94c8-182fb39154a0","anonymous":true,"analytics":{"start_dashboard_experiment":"2018-05-14T00:00:01Z","login_status":"false","lde":"false","is_library":"false","is_eligible_for_dashboard":"false","datasource_failures":0}},"environment":"production","apolloState":{"$ROOT_QUERY.root.analytics.data.0":{"key":"datasource_failures","value":"0","__typename":"AnalyticsData"},"$ROOT_QUERY.root.analytics.data.1":{"key":"is_eligible_for_dashboard","value":"false","__typename":"AnalyticsData"},"$ROOT_QUERY.root.analytics.data.2":{"key":"is_library","value":"false","__typename":"AnalyticsData"},"$ROOT_QUERY.root.analytics.data.3":{"key":"lde","value":"false","__typename":"AnalyticsData"},"$ROOT_QUERY.root.analytics.data.4":{"key":"login_status","value":"false","__typename":"AnalyticsData"},"$ROOT_QUERY.root.analytics.data.5":{"key":"start_dashboard_experiment","value":"2018-05-14T00:00:01Z","__typename":"AnalyticsData"},"$ROOT_QUERY.root.analytics":{"data":[{"type":"id","generated":true,"id":"$ROOT_QUERY.root.analytics.data.0","typename":"AnalyticsData"},{"type":"id","generated":true,"id":"$ROOT_QUERY.root.analytics.data.1","typename":"AnalyticsData"},{"type":"id","generated":true,"id":"$ROOT_QUERY.root.analytics.data.2","typename":"AnalyticsData"},{"type":"id","generated":true,"id":"$ROOT_QUERY.root.analytics.data.3","typename":"AnalyticsData"},{"type":"id","generated":true,"id":"$ROOT_QUERY.root.analytics.data.4","typename":"AnalyticsData"},{"type":"id","generated":true,"id":"$ROOT_QUERY.root.analytics.data.5","typename":"AnalyticsData"}],"experiments({\"locale\":\"en_GB\"})":[{"type":"id","generated":true,"id":"$ROOT_QUERY.root.analytics.experiments({\"locale\":\"en_GB\"}).0","typename":"Experiment"},{"type":"id","generated":true,"id":"$ROOT_QUERY.root.analytics.experiments({\"locale\":\"en_GB\"}).1","typename":"Experiment"},{"type":"id","generated":true,"id":"$ROOT_QUERY.root.analytics.experiments({\"locale\":\"en_GB\"}).2","typename":"Experiment"},{"type":"id","generated":true,"id":"$ROOT_QUERY.root.analytics.experiments({\"locale\":\"en_GB\"}).3","typename":"Experiment"},{"type":"id","generated":true,"id":"$ROOT_QUERY.root.analytics.experiments({\"locale\":\"en_GB\"}).4","typename":"Experiment"},{"type":"id","generated":true,"id":"$ROOT_QUERY.root.analytics.experiments({\"locale\":\"en_GB\"}).5","typename":"Experiment"},{"type":"id","generated":true,"id":"$ROOT_QUERY.root.analytics.experiments({\"locale\":\"en_GB\"}).6","typename":"Experiment"},{"type":"id","generated":true,"id":"$ROOT_QUERY.root.analytics.experiments({\"locale\":\"en_GB\"}).7","typename":"Experiment"},{"type":"id","generated":true,"id":"$ROOT_QUERY.root.analytics.experiments({\"locale\":\"en_GB\"}).8","typename":"Experiment"}],"__typename":"Analytics"},"$ROOT_QUERY.root.analytics.experiments({\"locale\":\"en_GB\"}).0":{"featureFlag":"hint-paywall","experimentId":"8685d4c4-7cd2-4886-9ac0-d37c24597317","experimentSlot":"10","experimentDomain":"uk","__typename":"Experiment"},"$ROOT_QUERY.root.analytics.experiments({\"locale\":\"en_GB\"}).1":{"featureFlag":"hint-management","experimentId":"f1835edb-1be6-42cc-b5b7-ad81b67b8950","experimentSlot":"0","experimentDomain":"uk","__typename":"Experiment"},"$ROOT_QUERY.root.analytics.experiments({\"locale\":\"en_GB\"}).2":{"featureFlag":"homepage-dashboard-experiment","experimentId":"4bfbec26-75f5-4231-a25c-cb3b8c0a5025","experimentSlot":"1","experimentDomain":"uk","__typename":"Experiment"},"$ROOT_QUERY.root.analytics.experiments({\"locale\":\"en_GB\"}).3":{"featureFlag":"uk-hide-ppv","experimentId":"8b1890cf-5d35-484d-8fa6-1a72ca3e1320","experimentSlot":"3","experimentDomain":"uk","__typename":"Experiment"},"$ROOT_QUERY.root.analytics.experiments({\"locale\":\"en_GB\"}).4":{"featureFlag":"surname-page-cta-experiment","experimentId":"ebdc8dd7-7bbc-49bb-a592-1f69f2803fb3","experimentSlot":"2","experimentDomain":"uk","__typename":"Experiment"},"$ROOT_QUERY.root.analytics.experiments({\"locale\":\"en_GB\"}).5":{"featureFlag":"cross-domain-experiment-test","experimentId":"24f79baf-431d-4bbf-8f0d-b2392813fbb0","experimentSlot":"1","experimentDomain":"all","__typename":"Experiment"},"$ROOT_QUERY.root.analytics.experiments({\"locale\":\"en_GB\"}).6":{"featureFlag":"hints-in-search-results","experimentId":"ac21341a-2e91-4355-b7fa-bfd3abcc24c6","experimentSlot":"0","experimentDomain":"all","__typename":"Experiment"},"$ROOT_QUERY.root.analytics.experiments({\"locale\":\"en_GB\"}).7":{"featureFlag":"transcripts-served-by-titan","experimentId":"833b7a8d-f11a-4613-bcd0-a0872adf7143","experimentSlot":"2","experimentDomain":"all","__typename":"Experiment"},"$ROOT_QUERY.root.analytics.experiments({\"locale\":\"en_GB\"}).8":{"featureFlag":"updates-to-main-registration-ui","experimentId":"1c3e963c-730b-406b-a448-98ca2b130d7a","experimentSlot":"3","experimentDomain":"all","__typename":"Experiment"},"$ROOT_QUERY.root":{"analytics":{"type":"id","generated":true,"id":"$ROOT_QUERY.root.analytics","typename":"Analytics"},"__typename":"Root","surnameDomain":{"type":"id","generated":true,"id":"$ROOT_QUERY.root.surnameDomain","typename":"SurnameDomain"}},"ROOT_QUERY":{"root":{"type":"id","generated":true,"id":"$ROOT_QUERY.root","typename":"Root"}},"$ROOT_QUERY.root.surnameDomain.surname({\"name\":\"alex\"}).facts.0":{"type":"criminalRecordCount","properties":[{"type":"id","generated":true,"id":"$ROOT_QUERY.root.surnameDomain.surname({\"name\":\"alex\"}).facts.0.properties.0","typename":"SurnameFactProperty"}],"__typename":"SurnameFact"},"$ROOT_QUERY.root.surnameDomain.surname({\"name\":\"alex\"}).facts.0.properties.0":{"type":"count","value":"0","__typename":"SurnameFactProperty"},"$ROOT_QUERY.root.surnameDomain.surname({\"name\":\"alex\"}).facts.1":{"type":"earliestOccurrenceOf","properties":[{"type":"id","generated":true,"id":"$ROOT_QUERY.root.surnameDomain.surname({\"name\":\"alex\"}).facts.1.properties.0","typename":"SurnameFactProperty"}],"__typename":"SurnameFact"},"$ROOT_QUERY.root.surnameDomain.surname({\"name\":\"alex\"}).facts.1.properties.0":{"type":"year","value":"1573","__typename":"SurnameFactProperty"},"$ROOT_QUERY.root.surnameDomain.surname({\"name\":\"alex\"}).facts.2":{"type":"firstWorldWarCount","properties":[{"type":"id","generated":true,"id":"$ROOT_QUERY.root.surnameDomain.surname({\"name\":\"alex\"}).facts.2.properties.0","typename":"SurnameFactProperty"}],"__typename":"SurnameFact"},"$ROOT_QUERY.root.surnameDomain.surname({\"name\":\"alex\"}).facts.2.properties.0":{"type":"count","value":"6","__typename":"SurnameFactProperty"},"$ROOT_QUERY.root.surnameDomain.surname({\"name\":\"alex\"}).facts.3":{"type":"mostLikelyLocation","properties":[{"type":"id","generated":true,"id":"$ROOT_QUERY.root.surnameDomain.surname({\"name\":\"alex\"}).facts.3.properties.0","typename":"SurnameFactProperty"}],"__typename":"SurnameFact"},"$ROOT_QUERY.root.surnameDomain.surname({\"name\":\"alex\"}).facts.3.properties.0":{"type":"location","value":"lancashire","__typename":"SurnameFactProperty"},"$ROOT_QUERY.root.surnameDomain.surname({\"name\":\"alex\"}).facts.4":{"type":"numberOfRecords","properties":[{"type":"id","generated":true,"id":"$ROOT_QUERY.root.surnameDomain.surname({\"name\":\"alex\"}).facts.4.properties.0","typename":"SurnameFactProperty"}],"__typename":"SurnameFact"},"$ROOT_QUERY.root.surnameDomain.surname({\"name\":\"alex\"}).facts.4.properties.0":{"type":"count","value":"13996","__typename":"SurnameFactProperty"},"$ROOT_QUERY.root.surnameDomain.surname({\"name\":\"alex\"})":{"facts":[{"type":"id","generated":true,"id":"$ROOT_QUERY.root.surnameDomain.surname({\"name\":\"alex\"}).facts.0","typename":"SurnameFact"},{"type":"id","generated":true,"id":"$ROOT_QUERY.root.surnameDomain.surname({\"name\":\"alex\"}).facts.1","typename":"SurnameFact"},{"type":"id","generated":true,"id":"$ROOT_QUERY.root.surnameDomain.surname({\"name\":\"alex\"}).facts.2","typename":"SurnameFact"},{"type":"id","generated":true,"id":"$ROOT_QUERY.root.surnameDomain.surname({\"name\":\"alex\"}).facts.3","typename":"SurnameFact"},{"type":"id","generated":true,"id":"$ROOT_QUERY.root.surnameDomain.surname({\"name\":\"alex\"}).facts.4","typename":"SurnameFact"}],"canonical":"Alex","additionalMeaning":null,"__typename":"Surname"},"$ROOT_QUERY.root.surnameDomain":{"surname({\"name\":\"alex\"})":{"type":"id","generated":true,"id":"$ROOT_QUERY.root.surnameDomain.surname({\"name\":\"alex\"})","typename":"Surname"},"__typename":"SurnameDomain"}}}
