Aleksander
Aleksander was given to 126 boys in 2025, #1,425 among boys’ names; 4,166 Americans have been recorded with it since 1918 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,090 Americans named Aleksander and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 8 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aleksander by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Aleksander mean?
Wiktionary, Polish section
Aleksander is “a male given name, equivalent to English Alexander”
Learned borrowing from Latin Alexander.
/a.lɛkˈsan.dɛr/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Polish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Aleksander?
#1,425 among boys’ names, 2025
Aleksander fell from #1,254 in 2015 to #1,425 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 75.1 to 73.8 per million.
171 babies in 2014, the peak
Aleksander peaked in 2014, when 171 boys were given it, #1,119 among boys’ names. The 126 births of 2025 are 74% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 126 | #1,425 | 73.8 |
| 2024 | 100 | #1,673 | 58.0 |
| 2023 | 125 | #1,449 | 73.1 |
| 2022 | 143 | #1,315 | 81.9 |
| 2021 | 140 | #1,325 | 80.0 |
| 2020 | 133 | #1,343 | 77.1 |
| 2019 | 145 | #1,283 | 80.8 |
| 2018 | 160 | #1,188 | 88.1 |
| 2017 | 155 | #1,195 | 83.7 |
| 2016 | 144 | #1,266 | 75.9 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 144 | #1,254 | 75.1 |
| 2014 | 171 | #1,119 | 89.0 |
| 2013 | 136 | #1,278 | 71.9 |
| 2012 | 152 | #1,188 | 80.1 |
| 2011 | 142 | #1,229 | 74.8 |
| 2010 | 131 | #1,309 | 68.3 |
| 2009 | 167 | #1,103 | 84.2 |
| 2008 | 138 | #1,263 | 67.6 |
| 2007 | 134 | #1,299 | 64.6 |
| 2006 | 123 | #1,330 | 59.8 |
| 2005 | 102 | #1,441 | 51.1 |
| 2004 | 115 | #1,291 | 57.9 |
| 2003 | 76 | #1,643 | 38.5 |
| 2002 | 104 | #1,292 | 53.6 |
| 2001 | 78 | #1,539 | 40.1 |
| 2000 | 78 | #1,538 | 39.7 |
| 1999 | 81 | #1,433 | 42.2 |
| 1998 | 66 | #1,582 | 34.5 |
| 1997 | 72 | #1,477 | 38.2 |
| 1996 | 76 | #1,385 | 40.1 |
| 1995 | 54 | #1,661 | 28.4 |
| 1994 | 54 | #1,660 | 27.9 |
| 1993 | 46 | #1,821 | 23.5 |
| 1992 | 61 | #1,485 | 30.5 |
| 1991 | 41 | #1,889 | 20.3 |
| 1990 | 33 | #2,166 | 16.1 |
| 1989 | 26 | #2,466 | 13.0 |
| 1988 | 23 | #2,508 | 12.0 |
| 1987 | 20 | #2,637 | 10.7 |
| 1986 | 21 | #2,510 | 11.4 |
| 1985 | 17 | #2,829 | 9.2 |
| 1984 | 10 | #3,927 | 5.5 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,498 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 14 | #3,108 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 10 | #3,861 | 5.6 |
| 1980 | 11 | #3,621 | 6.2 |
| 1979 | 7 | #4,856 | 4.1 |
| 1978 | 13 | #3,071 | 7.9 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,594 | 4.3 |
| 1975 | 6 | #4,809 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,196 | 4.5 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,517 | 3.8 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,416 | 2.8 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,146 | 2.9 |
| 1918 | 6 | #3,737 | 5.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Aleksander a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aleksander has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aleksander: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aleksander, and how old are they?
4,090 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 4,166 Americans ever recorded as Aleksander. The median Aleksander alive today is 15 years old; half are between 8 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 4,473 people named Aleksander (12 women and girls, 4,461 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,380 born in the U.S. The Census count is 32% above 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 61 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 490 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,730 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,810 |
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 Aleksander born?
The states with the most babies named Aleksander are Illinois, Texas and New York, with 45% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 14 | #632 | 2.2× |
| Texas | 11 | #1,558 | 0.6× |
| New York | 10 | #1,124 | 1.3× |
| Florida | 10 | #1,192 | 0.9× |
| California | 9 | #1,695 | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 8 | #771 | 1.5× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,114 | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,235 | 0.7× |
| Indiana | 5 | #951 | 0.1× |
Where Aleksander is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Aleksander is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1918 it was given 2.2 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 boys’ 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 Aleksander 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 7,523 babies since 1880, Aleksander is the most given (55% of them). In 2025 it was given to 126 of their 191 babies (66%), again the most given.
| 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 Aleksander
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 Aleksander and names like it
- Compare Aleksander and AleksandrBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAleksander peaked in 2014.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aleksander since 1910.
- Polish namesWiktionary’s origin for Aleksander: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Aleksander.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Aleksander alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.