Alessandro
Alessandro was given to 608 boys in 2025, #497 among boys’ names; 12,002 Americans have been recorded with it since 1933 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 11,800 Americans named Alessandro and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 6 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alessandro by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Alessandro mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Alessandro is “a male given name from Italian, equivalent to English Alexander.”
Borrowed from Italian Alessandro.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Alessandro?
#497 among boys’ names, 2025
Alessandro rose from #683 in 2015 to #497 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.19 to 0.36 per 1,000.
608 babies in 2025, the peak
Alessandro peaked in 2025, when 608 boys were given it, #497 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 539 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 608 | #497 | 0.36 |
| 2024 | 539 | #554 | 0.31 |
| 2023 | 555 | #533 | 0.32 |
| 2022 | 547 | #541 | 0.31 |
| 2021 | 455 | #610 | 0.26 |
| 2020 | 429 | #626 | 0.25 |
| 2019 | 449 | #608 | 0.25 |
| 2018 | 454 | #603 | 0.25 |
| 2017 | 401 | #646 | 0.22 |
| 2016 | 368 | #681 | 0.19 |
Every recorded year (73)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 370 | #683 | 0.19 |
| 2014 | 422 | #626 | 0.22 |
| 2013 | 389 | #634 | 0.21 |
| 2012 | 342 | #692 | 0.18 |
| 2011 | 364 | #643 | 0.19 |
| 2010 | 351 | #677 | 0.18 |
| 2009 | 379 | #654 | 0.19 |
| 2008 | 396 | #623 | 0.19 |
| 2007 | 326 | #710 | 0.16 |
| 2006 | 385 | #616 | 0.19 |
| 2005 | 315 | #669 | 0.16 |
| 2004 | 299 | #676 | 0.15 |
| 2003 | 263 | #711 | 0.13 |
| 2002 | 248 | #714 | 0.13 |
| 2001 | 159 | #968 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 162 | #937 | 0.08 |
| 1999 | 169 | #887 | 0.09 |
| 1998 | 163 | #892 | 0.09 |
| 1997 | 108 | #1,140 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 113 | #1,069 | 0.06 |
| 1995 | 90 | #1,216 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 110 | #1,059 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 86 | #1,211 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 88 | #1,183 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 80 | #1,239 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 74 | #1,282 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 88 | #1,126 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 62 | #1,304 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 55 | #1,335 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 54 | #1,333 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 51 | #1,353 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 45 | #1,421 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 38 | #1,561 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 29 | #1,890 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 35 | #1,661 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 35 | #1,656 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 34 | #1,670 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 29 | #1,794 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 31 | #1,707 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 28 | #1,781 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 27 | #1,786 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 26 | #1,790 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 27 | #1,697 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 21 | #1,967 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 26 | #1,744 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 24 | #1,796 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 15 | #2,216 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 19 | #1,836 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 16 | #1,973 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 16 | #1,964 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 17 | #1,917 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 9 | #2,856 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 12 | #2,416 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 14 | #2,185 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 8 | #3,098 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 7 | #3,343 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 7 | #3,291 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 12 | #2,374 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 7 | #3,260 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 6 | #3,456 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 6 | #3,428 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 5 | #3,680 | under 0.01 |
| 1933 | 5 | #3,650 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Alessandro a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alessandro has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 73 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Alessandro: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alessandro, and how old are they?
11,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 12,002 Americans ever recorded as Alessandro. The median Alessandro alive today is 13 years old; half are between 6 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 10,245 people named Alessandro (36 women and girls, 10,209 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,821 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 68 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 348 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,050 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,360 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5,940 |
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 Alessandro born?
The states with the most babies named Alessandro are California, Texas and Florida, with 57% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 138 | #268 | 1.7× |
| Texas | 117 | #316 | 1.2× |
| Florida | 66 | #290 | 2.0× |
| Illinois | 29 | #363 | 0.9× |
| New York | 27 | #572 | 1.6× |
| New Jersey | 19 | #413 | 1.5× |
| Colorado | 19 | #329 | 0.6× |
| Arizona | 16 | #444 | 0.9× |
| Nevada | 16 | #187 | 1.3× |
| Virginia | 14 | #526 | 0.8× |
Where Alessandro is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Alessandro is most over-represented in Florida: since 1933 it was given 2.0 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 Alessandro 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 12,381 babies since 1880, Alessandro is the most given (97% of them). In 2025 it was given to 608 of their 617 babies (99%), again the most given.
| Name | Since 1880 | Births 2025 | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alessandro | 12,002 | 608 | 2025 |
| Alesandro | 379 | 9 | 2002 |
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 Alessandro
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 Alessandro and names like it
- Compare Alessandro and AlesandroBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAlessandro peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alessandro since 1910.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Alessandro: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Alessandro.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Alessandro alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.