"Variant of Aleksandar"
The name Aleksa is commonly a unisex name from the "English" origin.
Aleksa is a South Slavic given name recorded in Serbian and Croatian use, where it serves as a short form of Aleksandar, the South Slavic form of Alexander. In that tradition it is a masculine name, while United States birth records list it for both boys and girls. It is not a modern invention, though it only enters the United States data in 1988.
Aleksandar means "Defending men".
The pronunciation of Aleksa is uh-LEK-suh.
