Aleksandr
Aleksandr was given to 44 boys in 2025, #2,836 among boys’ names; 1,675 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,640 Americans named Aleksandr and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 9 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aleksandr by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Aleksandr mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Aleksandr is “a transliteration of the Russian male given name Алекса́ндр (Aleksándr)”
Borrowed from Russian Алекса́ндр (Aleksándr).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Aleksandr?
#2,836 among boys’ names, 2025
Aleksandr fell from #2,428 in 2015 to #2,836 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 27.1 to 25.8 per million.
72 babies in 2016, the peak
Aleksandr peaked in 2016, when 72 boys were given it, #1,992 among boys’ names. The 44 births of 2025 are 61% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44 | #2,836 | 25.8 |
| 2024 | 56 | #2,444 | 32.5 |
| 2023 | 47 | #2,736 | 27.5 |
| 2022 | 39 | #3,099 | 22.3 |
| 2021 | 44 | #2,819 | 25.2 |
| 2020 | 39 | #2,980 | 22.6 |
| 2019 | 44 | #2,808 | 24.5 |
| 2018 | 51 | #2,507 | 28.1 |
| 2017 | 64 | #2,130 | 34.6 |
| 2016 | 72 | #1,992 | 37.9 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 52 | #2,428 | 27.1 |
| 2014 | 61 | #2,203 | 31.8 |
| 2013 | 55 | #2,298 | 29.1 |
| 2012 | 50 | #2,492 | 26.4 |
| 2011 | 60 | #2,172 | 31.6 |
| 2010 | 62 | #2,144 | 32.3 |
| 2009 | 44 | #2,752 | 22.2 |
| 2008 | 48 | #2,585 | 23.5 |
| 2007 | 42 | #2,813 | 20.2 |
| 2006 | 37 | #2,982 | 18.0 |
| 2005 | 41 | #2,653 | 20.5 |
| 2004 | 33 | #3,013 | 16.6 |
| 2003 | 29 | #3,186 | 14.7 |
| 2002 | 29 | #3,094 | 14.9 |
| 2001 | 52 | #2,025 | 26.8 |
| 2000 | 31 | #2,862 | 15.8 |
| 1999 | 37 | #2,399 | 19.3 |
| 1998 | 47 | #2,009 | 24.6 |
| 1997 | 40 | #2,162 | 21.2 |
| 1996 | 29 | #2,588 | 15.3 |
| 1995 | 39 | #2,099 | 20.5 |
| 1994 | 36 | #2,216 | 18.6 |
| 1993 | 22 | #3,041 | 11.2 |
| 1992 | 30 | #2,407 | 15.0 |
| 1991 | 25 | #2,678 | 12.4 |
| 1990 | 28 | #2,428 | 13.6 |
| 1989 | 12 | #4,270 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 10 | #4,452 | 5.2 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,577 | 4.8 |
| 1986 | 10 | #4,135 | 5.4 |
| 1985 | 8 | #4,702 | 4.3 |
| 1984 | 6 | #5,578 | 3.3 |
| 1983 | 7 | #4,926 | 3.9 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,021 | 3.9 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,146 | 5.0 |
| 1979 | 7 | #4,857 | 4.1 |
| 1978 | 5 | #5,795 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 6 | #4,946 | 3.8 |
| 1975 | 6 | #4,810 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 9 | #3,561 | 5.7 |
| 1971 | 5 | #4,923 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Aleksandr a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aleksandr has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aleksandr: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aleksandr, and how old are they?
1,640 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,675 Americans ever recorded as Aleksandr. The median Aleksandr alive today is 16 years old; half are between 9 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 9,767 people named Aleksandr (16 women and girls, 9,751 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,394 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7.0 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 43 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 266 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 671 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 663 |
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 Aleksandr born?
The states with the most babies named Aleksandr are California, Florida and Washington, with 68% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Washington is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 158 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 85 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Washington | 80 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| New York | 67 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 33 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 16 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Oregon | 12 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Virginia | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Colorado | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Indiana | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
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 Aleksandr 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, Aleksandr is the second most given (22% of them). In 2025 it was given to 44 of their 191 babies (23%), again the second 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 Aleksandr
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 Aleksandr and names like it
- Compare Aleksandr and AleksanderBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAleksandr peaked in 2016.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aleksandr since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Aleksandr.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Aleksandr alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.