Alexandr
Alexandr was given to 12 boys in 2025, #6,821 among boys’ names; 794 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alexandr by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Alexandr mean?
Wiktionary, Czech section
Alexandr is “a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Alexander” Its etymology gives the senses “I defend” (ἀλέξω) and “man” (ἀνήρ).
Inherited from Old Czech Alexander, from Latin Alexander, from Ancient Greek Ἀλέξανδρος (Aléxandros), from ἀλέξω (aléxō, “I defend”) + ἀνδρ- (andr-), the stem of ἀνήρ (anḗr, “man”).
[ˈalɛksandr̩]
Meaning: Wiktionary, Czech section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Alexandr?
#6,821 among boys’ names, 2025
Alexandr fell from #5,294 in 2015 to #6,821 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 8.9 to 7.0 per million.
316 babies in 1989, the peak
Alexandr peaked in 1989, when 316 babies were given it (15 boys, #3,616 among boys’ names). The 12 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 12 | #6,821 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 7 | #9,939 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 10 | #7,782 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 9 | #8,194 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 7 | #9,604 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 10 | #7,664 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 9 | #8,179 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 14 | #6,065 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 13 | #6,360 | |
| 2015 | under 5 | 17 | #5,294 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | under 5 | 21 | #4,540 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 16 | #5,407 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 18 | #5,036 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 20 | #4,662 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 19 | #4,849 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 14 | #6,102 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 13 | #6,402 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 18 | #4,999 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 17 | #5,076 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 25 | #3,710 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 17 | #4,793 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 15 | #5,036 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 14 | #5,133 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 14 | #5,142 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 8 | #7,441 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 13 | #5,042 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 15 | #4,413 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 8 | #6,628 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 14 | #4,395 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 12 | #4,792 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 15 | #4,094 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 8 | #6,236 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 11 | #4,874 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 8 | #5,948 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 6 | #7,194 | |
| 1989 | 301 | #677 | 15 | #3,616 |
| 1988 | under 5 | 6 | #6,438 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 5 | #6,972 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Alexandr a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 794 Americans recorded as Alexandr, 38% are girls and 62% boys. In 2025 it went to 12 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Alexandr: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alexandr, and how old are they?
An estimated 777 Americans named Alexandr and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 16 and 37. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,989 people named Alexandr (79 women and girls, 1,910 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 739 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Alexandr rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 Alexandr born?
The states with the most babies named Alexandr are New York, Florida and Washington, with 100% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 306 | not ranked | 5.8× |
| Florida | 12 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Washington | 5 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Alexandr is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Alexandr is most over-represented in New York: since 1987 it was given 5.8 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 Alexandr 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 742,897 babies since 1880, Alexandr is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 7,275 babies (<1%), again the second most given.
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 Alexandr
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1980-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Minh | 2,409 |
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 Alexandr and names like it
- Compare Alexandr and AlexanderBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sAlexandr peaked in 1989.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alexandr since 1910.
- Ancient Greek namesWiktionary’s origin for Alexandr: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Alexandr.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Alexandr alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with AMost given first.