Aleksandra
Aleksandra was given to 47 girls in 2025, #3,296 among girls’ names; 3,110 Americans have been recorded with it since 1965 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,070 Americans named Aleksandra and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 12 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aleksandra by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Aleksandra mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Aleksandra is “a transliteration of the Pannonian Rusyn or Russian female given name Александра (Aleksandra)”
Borrowed from Russian Алекса́ндра (Aleksándra).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Aleksandra?
#3,296 among girls’ names, 2025
Aleksandra fell from #1,839 in 2015 to #3,296 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 62.7 to 29.2 per million.
126 babies in 2008, the peak
Aleksandra peaked in 2008, when 126 girls were given it, #1,756 among girls’ names. The 47 births of 2025 are 37% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 47 | #3,296 | 29.2 |
| 2024 | 47 | #3,337 | 29.0 |
| 2023 | 44 | #3,526 | 27.4 |
| 2022 | 46 | #3,417 | 28.0 |
| 2021 | 73 | #2,441 | 44.5 |
| 2020 | 72 | #2,416 | 44.5 |
| 2019 | 61 | #2,755 | 36.3 |
| 2018 | 64 | #2,679 | 37.6 |
| 2017 | 90 | #2,131 | 52.1 |
| 2016 | 85 | #2,249 | 48.0 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 112 | #1,839 | 62.7 |
| 2014 | 99 | #1,998 | 55.4 |
| 2013 | 116 | #1,762 | 66.1 |
| 2012 | 107 | #1,875 | 60.8 |
| 2011 | 99 | #1,984 | 56.3 |
| 2010 | 104 | #1,928 | 58.5 |
| 2009 | 120 | #1,792 | 65.3 |
| 2008 | 126 | #1,756 | 66.6 |
| 2007 | 125 | #1,736 | 65.0 |
| 2006 | 117 | #1,771 | 61.5 |
| 2005 | 101 | #1,910 | 54.7 |
| 2004 | 79 | #2,226 | 43.0 |
| 2003 | 97 | #1,884 | 53.1 |
| 2002 | 92 | #1,914 | 51.2 |
| 2001 | 81 | #2,060 | 45.0 |
| 2000 | 66 | #2,328 | 36.3 |
| 1999 | 72 | #2,112 | 40.6 |
| 1998 | 69 | #2,101 | 39.1 |
| 1997 | 60 | #2,257 | 34.5 |
| 1996 | 63 | #2,148 | 35.9 |
| 1995 | 60 | #2,211 | 34.1 |
| 1994 | 45 | #2,697 | 25.2 |
| 1993 | 72 | #1,938 | 39.8 |
| 1992 | 50 | #2,510 | 27.1 |
| 1991 | 34 | #3,201 | 18.1 |
| 1990 | 33 | #3,293 | 17.4 |
| 1989 | 37 | #2,925 | 20.1 |
| 1988 | 26 | #3,582 | 14.6 |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,659 | 9.8 |
| 1986 | 27 | #3,275 | 15.7 |
| 1985 | 20 | #3,984 | 11.6 |
| 1984 | 17 | #4,320 | 10.1 |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,286 | 10.2 |
| 1982 | 11 | #5,920 | 6.5 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,331 | 6.0 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,188 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,197 | 6.2 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,572 | 7.2 |
| 1977 | 10 | #5,896 | 6.5 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,604 | 6.8 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,495 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,015 | 7.5 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,451 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 8 | #5,966 | 5.3 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,348 | 3.0 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,256 | 3.7 |
| 1965 | 8 | #4,833 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Aleksandra a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aleksandra has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 57 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aleksandra: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aleksandra, and how old are they?
3,070 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,110 Americans ever recorded as Aleksandra. The median Aleksandra alive today is 19 years old; half are between 12 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 7,552 people named Aleksandra (7,537 women and girls, 15 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,768 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.7 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 | 94 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 526 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,500 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 950 |
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 Aleksandra born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 8 | #1,021 | 3.6× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,167 | 0.9× |
Where Aleksandra is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Aleksandra is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1965 it was given 3.6 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 Aleksandra with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Aleksandra
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 Aleksandra and names like it
- Compare Aleksandra and MariyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAleksandra peaked in 2008.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aleksandra since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Aleksandra.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Aleksandra alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.