Great! Usually Alexes whom I met

were female, so I decided that in the US it is a female name .
For example, I am watching 'what women want'

and the name of Gibson's daughter in the movie is Alex.
Alexander Baldwin, though, sometimes is Alec and

sometimes Alex...

Actually, there is nos such an official name in Russian (it is used as a nickname only in

imitation of the West) so I decided to make it clear