It should only ever be a nn. If it were the full name, it would be distinctly trashy.
I went to college with a Lexi (not sure if it was nn or full name), she was an attractive girl, all the guys called her "sexy Lexi" behind her back. It wasn't mean, but I personally wouldn't name my girl something that rhymes with sexy.
To me it is a stripper name, but really only because H's friend had a girlfriend named Lexi and she was a super trashy stripper. Lexi was her stage name, but she always went by it I don't know her real name.
I love Alexandra, but I like the NN Alex much more then Lexi.
I would never classify it as a stripper name. I know a lot of girls with the name- lots of them in my ballet classes, and I simply don't associate 5 and 6 year old little Lexi's as strippers. That said, I prefer it as a nickname. I really don't think it's a name that can stand on its own. I prefer Alexandra, Alexandria or Alexis with Lexi as the NN.
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I went to high school with a girl who dubbed herself "sexy Lexi" completely ruined that name, even as a nn, for me. I feel like its inevidable with that name.
IMO Lexi is a NN and not even a good one. Everytime I hear it I think of this girl my DH and his friends new in a college who was totally clingy when she got drunk and they all called her "Sexy Lexi" and then did this octopus impression to depict her "behaviors."
Re: Lexi
The name gets no love here...It gets really old to hear people on this board say it's a "stripper name."
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IMO Lexi is a NN and not even a good one. Everytime I hear it I think of this girl my DH and his friends new in a college who was totally clingy when she got drunk and they all called her "Sexy Lexi" and then did this octopus impression to depict her "behaviors."