Meaning and background
The story behind Alexi
Alexi has a clear American soccer association in Alexi Lalas. U.S. Soccer’s historical register assigns him national-team player number 487 and records his first appearance against Mexico on March 12, 1991. The register numbers players by the order of their debuts, making this an identifiable use of the exact spelling. Lalas offers a sporting namesake for Alexi; this team record supplies no linguistic explanation of the name.
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- U.S. men’s national-team player Alexi Lalas, whose debut is recorded against Mexico on March 12, 1991. Source
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Recorded as a dog’s name
Alexi appears in 4 dog licence records in the 2026 New York City dataset.
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Pronunciation and rhythm
/əlɛksi/
US English sound sequence, converted from the CMU dictionary. Stress marks are shown separately.
Stress on the second syllable in the recorded US readings.
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/əlɛksi/ · primary stress on syllable 2AH0 L EH1 K S IY0
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Sources and research notes (2)
- New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene NYC Dog Licensing Dataset — extract_year 2026 — Dog licence periods, not unique dogs; NYC only. No owner-level fields retrieved.
- Carnegie Mellon University / CMU Sphinx maintainers CMU US English Pronouncing Dictionary — US English dictionary readings; not owner-specific or exhaustive multilingual pronunciation
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