Alejandra
Alejandra was given to 486 girls in 2025, #604 among girls’ names; 54,545 Americans have been recorded with it since 1900 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 53,100 Americans named Alejandra and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 19 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alejandra by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Alejandra mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Alejandra is “a female given name from Spanish, equivalent to English Alexandra.”
Borrowed from Spanish Alejandra. Doublet of Alexandra.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Alejandra?
#604 among girls’ names, 2025
Alejandra fell from #451 in 2015 to #604 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.39 to 0.30 per 1,000.
2,223 babies in 1994, the peak
Alejandra peaked in 1994, when 2,223 babies were given it (2,187 girls, #145 among girls’ names). The 486 births of 2025 are 22% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 486 | #604 | 0.30 |
| 2024 | 524 | #578 | 0.32 |
| 2023 | 554 | #548 | 0.35 |
| 2022 | 529 | #568 | 0.32 |
| 2021 | 480 | #617 | 0.29 |
| 2020 | 551 | #545 | 0.34 |
| 2019 | 600 | #518 | 0.36 |
| 2018 | 608 | #512 | 0.36 |
| 2017 | 617 | #507 | 0.36 |
| 2016 | 721 | #446 | 0.41 |
Every recorded year (116)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 703 | #451 | 0.39 |
| 2014 | 717 | #446 | 0.40 |
| 2013 | 725 | #419 | 0.41 |
| 2012 | 785 | #395 | 0.45 |
| 2011 | 929 | #344 | 0.53 |
| 2010 | 1,188 | #279 | 0.67 |
| 2009 | 1,199 | #273 | 0.65 |
| 2008 | 1,329 | #261 | 0.70 |
| 2007 | 1,376 | #254 | 0.72 |
| 2006 | 1,487 | #233 | 0.78 |
| 2005 | 1,583 | #220 | 0.86 |
| 2004 | 1,630 | #206 | 0.89 |
| 2003 | 1,668 | #197 | 0.91 |
| 2002 | 1,693 | #191 | 0.94 |
| 2001 | 1,718 | #192 | 1.0 |
| 2000 | 1,861 | #174 | 1.0 |
| 1999 | 1,754 | #179 | 1.0 |
| 1998 | 2,020 | #156 | 1.1 |
| 1997 | 1,906 | #162 | 1.1 |
| 1996 | 1,955 | #160 | 1.1 |
| 1995 | 2,002 | #159 | 1.1 |
| 1994 | 2,187 | #145 | 1.2 |
| 1993 | 2,126 | #147 | 1.2 |
| 1992 | 2,044 | #148 | 1.1 |
| 1991 | 1,641 | #182 | 0.88 |
| 1990 | 1,376 | #211 | 0.72 |
| 1989 | 895 | #291 | 0.49 |
| 1988 | 701 | #355 | 0.39 |
| 1987 | 528 | #423 | 0.30 |
| 1986 | 526 | #417 | 0.31 |
| 1985 | 477 | #454 | 0.28 |
| 1984 | 458 | #453 | 0.27 |
| 1983 | 535 | #403 | 0.32 |
| 1982 | 490 | #441 | 0.29 |
| 1981 | 488 | #438 | 0.29 |
| 1980 | 463 | #458 | 0.28 |
| 1979 | 392 | #506 | 0.24 |
| 1978 | 297 | #578 | 0.19 |
| 1977 | 259 | #641 | 0.17 |
| 1976 | 293 | #566 | 0.20 |
| 1975 | 183 | #772 | 0.13 |
| 1974 | 158 | #834 | 0.11 |
| 1973 | 139 | #897 | 0.10 |
| 1972 | 162 | #818 | 0.11 |
| 1971 | 112 | #1,075 | 0.07 |
| 1970 | 78 | #1,343 | 0.04 |
| 1969 | 77 | #1,276 | 0.05 |
| 1968 | 49 | #1,647 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 45 | #1,702 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 30 | #2,146 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 39 | #1,830 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 48 | #1,666 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 31 | #2,130 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 36 | #1,916 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 26 | #2,358 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 30 | #2,098 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 18 | #2,760 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,545 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 18 | #2,728 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 18 | #2,724 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 20 | #2,473 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 13 | #3,158 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 9 | #3,957 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,810 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 22 | #2,116 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,652 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 18 | #2,340 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 28 | #1,778 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 19 | #2,279 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,740 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 20 | #1,873 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 20 | #1,915 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,809 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,820 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,565 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,423 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 16 | #2,040 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,350 | under 0.01 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,437 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 14 | #2,154 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,304 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,807 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 17 | #1,910 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 18 | #1,876 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 15 | #2,108 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 18 | #1,935 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 20 | #1,826 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 14 | #2,383 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 12 | #2,700 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 22 | #1,829 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 17 | #2,193 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 18 | #2,139 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 20 | #1,944 | 0.02 |
| 1922 | 18 | #2,112 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 11 | #2,947 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 14 | #2,465 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,826 | under 0.01 |
| 1918 | 21 | #1,806 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 12 | #2,554 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,248 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,138 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,193 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,197 | 0.01 |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,195 | 0.01 |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,408 | 0.01 |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,723 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Alejandra a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alejandra has been given almost only to girls: 530 boys in 116 years of records.
Girls and boys named Alejandra: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alejandra, and how old are they?
53,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 54,545 Americans ever recorded as Alejandra. The median Alejandra alive today is 27 years old; half are between 19 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 78,499 people named Alejandra (78,074 women and girls, 425 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 50,457 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 68 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 324 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,640 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 18,300 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 24,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 7,780 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Alejandra born?
The states with the most babies named Alejandra are Texas, California and Florida, with 57% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 107 | #317 | 2.4× |
| California | 105 | #308 | 2.9× |
| Florida | 39 | #471 | 0.9× |
| New York | 21 | #759 | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 20 | #495 | 1.1× |
| Arizona | 20 | #344 | 1.8× |
| Georgia | 16 | #645 | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 11 | #838 | 0.4× |
| Colorado | 9 | #586 | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 9 | #777 | 0.5× |
Where Alejandra is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Alejandra is most over-represented in California: since 1910 it was given 2.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Alejandra with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 54,652 babies since 1880, Alejandra is the most given (100% of them). In 2025 it was given to 486 of their 486 babies (100%), again the most given.
| Name | Since 1880 | Births 2025 | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alejandra | 54,545 | 486 | 1994 |
| Alejandria | 107 | 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 Alejandra
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 Alejandra and names like it
- Compare Alejandra and AlejandriaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sAlejandra peaked in 1994.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alejandra since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Alejandra: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Alejandra.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Alejandra alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.