"Form of Alexia"
The name Alexya is commonly a female name from the "American" origin.
Alexya is a respelling of Alexia, the feminine form of the Greek personal name Alexios, which is built on the verb alexein, meaning to defend or ward off. The substitution of y for i is a spelling variation and does not change the name's derivation or meaning.
Alexia means "Defender, protector. Used as a short form of Alexandra, though it has a different root. ".
The pronunciation of Alexya is uh-LEK-see-uh.
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