Alecsander
Alecsander was last recorded in 2019, when 5 babies were given it; 245 Americans have been recorded with it between 1990 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alecsander by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Alecsander mean?
Wiktionary, Welsh section
Alecsander is “a male given name from Ancient Greek, the Welsh version of Alexander”
Borrowed from Latin Alexander from Ancient Greek Ἀλέξανδρος (Aléxandros).
Meaning: Wiktionary, Welsh section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Alecsander?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,210, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
26 babies in 1997, the peak
Alecsander peaked in 1997, when 26 boys were given it, #2,902 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 5 | #12,210 | 2.8 |
| 2015 | 5 | #12,156 | 2.6 |
| 2012 | 6 | #10,829 | 3.2 |
| 2011 | 5 | #12,351 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 7 | #9,811 | 3.4 |
| 2006 | 5 | #12,110 | 2.4 |
| 2005 | 12 | #6,234 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 6 | #9,985 | 3.0 |
| 2003 | 10 | #6,725 | 5.1 |
| 2002 | 10 | #6,534 | 5.2 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 13 | #5,388 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 21 | #3,765 | 10.7 |
| 1999 | 19 | #3,837 | 9.9 |
| 1998 | 15 | #4,411 | 7.8 |
| 1997 | 26 | #2,902 | 13.8 |
| 1996 | 24 | #3,017 | 12.7 |
| 1995 | 17 | #3,691 | 8.9 |
| 1994 | 19 | #3,466 | 9.8 |
| 1993 | 7 | #6,834 | 3.6 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,133 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,136 | 2.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Alecsander a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alecsander has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 21 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Alecsander: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alecsander, and how old are they?
An estimated 239 Americans named Alecsander and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 23 and 30. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 225 people named Alecsander (0 women and girls, 225 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 241 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 7,523 babies since 1880, Alecsander is the fourth most given (3.3% of them). In 2025 none of their 191 babies recorded by SSA was a Alecsander (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
| Name | Since 1880 | Births 2025 | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aleksander | 4,166 | 126 | 2014 |
| Aleksandr | 1,675 | 44 | 2016 |
| Aleksandar | 1,437 | 21 | 2005 |
| Alecsander | 245 | under 5 | 1997 |
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Alecsander
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Alecsander and names like it
- Compare Alecsander and AleksanderBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sAlecsander peaked in 1997.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alecsander since 1910.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Alecsander.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Alecsander alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.