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I have a cousin named Alec! He's 6'4" / 6'5" and dresses like a lumberjack.

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I think generally it comes across a bit sassy or goofy because the phrase "smart alec" is well-known, but I feel like it has more personality than Alex.

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Alec Benjamin
Alec Dinadan
Alec Leroy
Alec Hazel
Alec Erwin
Alec Ivan
Alec Eugene
Alec Draco
Alec Homer
Alec Daniel
Alec Jesse
Alec Wynnstan
Alec Trevor
Alec Trevelyan
Alec Silas
Alec Forest
Alec Griffin
Alec Duncan
Alec Percival
Alec Fergus
Alec Ishmael
Alec Wolfgang
Alec Hartwin
Alec Pluto
Alec Faolán
Alec Ronan
Alec Tadhg
Alec Bennett
Alec Rufus

This message was edited 11/25/2021, 5:03 PM

As a standalone name, it's better than Alex because it actually sounds complete.

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Alec Vaughn
Alec Stewart
Alec Barnaby

It used to be one of my favourites, and I still like it a lot.

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Alec William
Alec David
Alec Benjamin
Alec Henry
Alec Jonathan
Alec Joseph

Alec Baldwin is pretty much the only person I know of with the name both in terms of regular people and in celebrity, to me it's a name of mononymous association & the potential problems that could come with that.

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If I can remove that from my consciousness Alec is a very distinct and handsome name. I always imagine a young man that is a little bit smarmy but also very very clever.

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But there's also the issue of the association with smart alec. Not to mention the name Alex is so monstrously popular it's most guaranteed a person named Alec would be mistakenly called Alex perhaps multiple times a day all his life & that sounds annoying and burdensome. (At least in the US)

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This one I prefer as a stand-alone, I think it would be doubly confusing to have it as a nickname for Alexander, again, when he isn't Alex. (Again, in the US)

This message was edited 11/25/2021, 6:35 AM

I like Alec very much as a stand-alone name. As a nn for Alexander, I don't think it would work: there are so many Alex people that it would just morph into Alex however hard its owner or his parents tried.

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Not another two-syllable name, I don't think; not a short a sound in an accented syllable either. So:

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Alec John; Alec James; Alec Paul; Alec George
Alec David; Alec Peter; Alec Gareth, though the -c and the G- are a bit odd together; Alec Edward; Alec Thomas; Alec Leonard
Alec Benjamin; Alec Nicholas; Alec Sebastian; Alec William

I like it and think it has enough history to stand alone by now, wasn’t Alec Guinness just Alec?

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