Alessandra
Alessandra was given to 697 girls in 2025, #443 among girls’ names; 24,836 Americans have been recorded with it since 1943 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 24,500 Americans named Alessandra and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alessandra by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Alessandra mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Alessandra is “a female given name from Italian, equivalent to English Alexandra.”
Borrowed from Italian Alessandra.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Alessandra?
#443 among girls’ names, 2025
Alessandra fell from #276 in 2015 to #443 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.64 to 0.43 per 1,000.
1,141 babies in 2015, the peak
Alessandra peaked in 2015, when 1,141 girls were given it, #276 among girls’ names. The 697 births of 2025 are 61% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 697 | #443 | 0.43 |
| 2024 | 724 | #426 | 0.45 |
| 2023 | 788 | #390 | 0.49 |
| 2022 | 822 | #380 | 0.50 |
| 2021 | 789 | #403 | 0.48 |
| 2020 | 843 | #368 | 0.52 |
| 2019 | 1,003 | #320 | 0.60 |
| 2018 | 1,009 | #324 | 0.59 |
| 2017 | 1,036 | #315 | 0.60 |
| 2016 | 1,070 | #305 | 0.60 |
Every recorded year (76)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,141 | #276 | 0.64 |
| 2014 | 1,082 | #301 | 0.61 |
| 2013 | 1,065 | #301 | 0.61 |
| 2012 | 923 | #344 | 0.52 |
| 2011 | 792 | #398 | 0.45 |
| 2010 | 830 | #386 | 0.47 |
| 2009 | 658 | #471 | 0.36 |
| 2008 | 785 | #408 | 0.42 |
| 2007 | 858 | #384 | 0.45 |
| 2006 | 897 | #361 | 0.47 |
| 2005 | 664 | #457 | 0.36 |
| 2004 | 569 | #509 | 0.31 |
| 2003 | 459 | #596 | 0.25 |
| 2002 | 394 | #643 | 0.22 |
| 2001 | 346 | #710 | 0.19 |
| 2000 | 359 | #672 | 0.20 |
| 1999 | 312 | #722 | 0.18 |
| 1998 | 284 | #757 | 0.16 |
| 1997 | 273 | #769 | 0.16 |
| 1996 | 264 | #786 | 0.15 |
| 1995 | 253 | #786 | 0.14 |
| 1994 | 233 | #851 | 0.13 |
| 1993 | 199 | #948 | 0.11 |
| 1992 | 248 | #808 | 0.13 |
| 1991 | 215 | #902 | 0.11 |
| 1990 | 237 | #826 | 0.12 |
| 1989 | 214 | #860 | 0.12 |
| 1988 | 220 | #829 | 0.12 |
| 1987 | 176 | #931 | 0.10 |
| 1986 | 141 | #1,066 | 0.08 |
| 1985 | 111 | #1,232 | 0.06 |
| 1984 | 84 | #1,388 | 0.05 |
| 1983 | 52 | #1,960 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 53 | #1,966 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 41 | #2,376 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 43 | #2,281 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 46 | #2,149 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 28 | #2,860 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 22 | #3,368 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 30 | #2,601 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 33 | #2,411 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 36 | #2,214 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 44 | #1,885 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 29 | #2,453 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 38 | #2,138 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 29 | #2,522 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 24 | #2,706 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 37 | #1,975 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 23 | #2,559 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 14 | #3,402 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 17 | #3,052 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 16 | #3,246 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,462 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 8 | #4,871 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 8 | #4,887 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 16 | #3,094 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 13 | #3,437 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,412 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 5 | #5,965 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,377 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,596 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 6 | #4,916 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,742 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,677 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,425 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,700 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Alessandra a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alessandra has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 76 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Alessandra: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alessandra, and how old are they?
24,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 24,836 Americans ever recorded as Alessandra. The median Alessandra alive today is 14 years old; half are between 8 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 20,401 people named Alessandra (20,359 women and girls, 42 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 20,171 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 101 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 459 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,670 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 9,310 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 12,000 |
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 Alessandra born?
The states with the most babies named Alessandra are California, Texas and Florida, with 54% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 154 | #214 | 1.6× |
| Texas | 149 | #237 | 1.6× |
| Florida | 54 | #330 | 1.4× |
| New York | 53 | #317 | 1.6× |
| New Jersey | 30 | #276 | 1.6× |
| Arizona | 29 | #233 | 1.6× |
| Illinois | 26 | #402 | 0.8× |
| Massachusetts | 16 | #353 | 1.1× |
| Virginia | 12 | #609 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 12 | #798 | 0.4× |
Where Alessandra is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Alessandra is most over-represented in Texas: since 1943 it was given 1.6 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 Alessandra 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 28,179 babies since 1880, Alessandra is the most given (88% of them). In 2025 it was given to 697 of their 743 babies (94%), again the most given.
| Name | Since 1880 | Births 2025 | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alessandra | 24,836 | 697 | 2015 |
| Alesandra | 897 | 9 | 2008 |
| Alyssandra | 848 | 8 | 2012 |
| Alisandra | 457 | 10 | 2007 |
| Alissandra | 452 | 7 | 2015 |
| Alysandra | 238 | under 5 | 2012 |
| Allessandra | 230 | under 5 | 2008 |
| Alessandria | 221 | 12 | 2017 |
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 Alessandra
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 Alessandra and names like it
- Compare Alessandra and AlesandraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAlessandra peaked in 2015.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alessandra since 1910.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Alessandra: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Alessandra.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Alessandra alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.