Alexandria
Alexandria was given to 647 girls in 2025, #474 among girls’ names; 104,778 Americans have been recorded with it since 1902 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 102,000 Americans named Alexandria and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 20 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alexandria by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Alexandria mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Alexandria is “a female given name from Ancient Greek.” Its etymology gives the senses “Alexander” (Ἀλέξανδρος) and “-ia: forming place names” (-εια).
From Middle English Alexandria, from Old English Alexandria, from Latin Alexandrīa, from Ancient Greek Ἀλεξάνδρεια (Alexándreia), from Ἀλέξανδρος (Aléxandros, “Alexander”) + -εια (-eia, “-ia: forming place names”), initially chiefly places founded by Alexander the Great of Macedonia and subsequently usually with reference to Alexandria in Egypt, a major Hellenistic cultural center, center of early Christianity, and continuing major international port. Compare Antioch, Seleucia, and Ptolemais. Doublet of Kandahar, Iskenderun, Scandaroon, and Alexandretta.
/æləkˈzændɹi.ə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Alexandria?
#474 among girls’ names, 2025
Alexandria fell from #212 in 2015 to #474 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.86 to 0.40 per 1,000.
5,042 babies in 1993, the peak
Alexandria peaked in 1993, when 5,042 babies were given it (5,027 girls, #69 among girls’ names). The 647 births of 2025 are 13% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 647 | #474 | 0.40 |
| 2024 | 678 | #463 | 0.42 |
| 2023 | 760 | #403 | 0.47 |
| 2022 | 775 | #406 | 0.47 |
| 2021 | 884 | #353 | 0.54 |
| 2020 | 983 | #320 | 0.61 |
| 2019 | 1,105 | #299 | 0.66 |
| 2018 | 1,184 | #282 | 0.70 |
| 2017 | 1,249 | #257 | 0.72 |
| 2016 | 1,477 | #218 | 0.83 |
Every recorded year (122)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,544 | #212 | 0.86 |
| 2014 | 1,609 | #211 | 0.90 |
| 2013 | 1,566 | #204 | 0.89 |
| 2012 | 1,523 | #205 | 0.86 |
| 2011 | 1,530 | #205 | 0.87 |
| 2010 | 1,515 | #204 | 0.85 |
| 2009 | 1,643 | #200 | 0.89 |
| 2008 | 1,794 | #189 | 0.95 |
| 2007 | 2,203 | #164 | 1.1 |
| 2006 | 2,335 | #147 | 1.2 |
| 2005 | 2,455 | #133 | 1.3 |
| 2004 | 2,653 | #125 | 1.4 |
| 2003 | 2,752 | #123 | 1.5 |
| 2002 | 3,148 | #106 | 1.8 |
| 2001 | 3,404 | #91 | 1.9 |
| 2000 | 3,549 | #91 | 2.0 |
| 1999 | 3,789 | #83 | 2.1 |
| 1998 | 4,009 | #81 | 2.3 |
| 1997 | 4,234 | #78 | 2.4 |
| 1996 | 4,563 | #77 | 2.6 |
| 1995 | 4,772 | #72 | 2.7 |
| 1994 | 4,840 | #73 | 2.7 |
| 1993 | 5,027 | #69 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 4,796 | #73 | 2.6 |
| 1991 | 4,470 | #78 | 2.4 |
| 1990 | 3,595 | #95 | 1.9 |
| 1989 | 3,059 | #104 | 1.7 |
| 1988 | 2,275 | #124 | 1.3 |
| 1987 | 1,554 | #179 | 0.89 |
| 1986 | 1,120 | #233 | 0.65 |
| 1985 | 855 | #289 | 0.50 |
| 1984 | 848 | #285 | 0.50 |
| 1983 | 551 | #398 | 0.33 |
| 1982 | 592 | #390 | 0.35 |
| 1981 | 552 | #404 | 0.33 |
| 1980 | 244 | #697 | 0.15 |
| 1979 | 186 | #836 | 0.12 |
| 1978 | 196 | #780 | 0.13 |
| 1977 | 144 | #959 | 0.09 |
| 1976 | 146 | #903 | 0.10 |
| 1975 | 147 | #896 | 0.10 |
| 1974 | 156 | #841 | 0.11 |
| 1973 | 130 | #934 | 0.09 |
| 1972 | 136 | #912 | 0.09 |
| 1971 | 148 | #896 | 0.09 |
| 1970 | 134 | #949 | 0.08 |
| 1969 | 126 | #951 | 0.07 |
| 1968 | 86 | #1,166 | 0.05 |
| 1967 | 89 | #1,103 | 0.05 |
| 1966 | 82 | #1,178 | 0.05 |
| 1965 | 69 | #1,303 | 0.04 |
| 1964 | 51 | #1,594 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 69 | #1,330 | 0.04 |
| 1962 | 53 | #1,539 | 0.03 |
| 1961 | 52 | #1,567 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 49 | #1,596 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 37 | #1,819 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 46 | #1,577 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 40 | #1,704 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 61 | #1,328 | 0.03 |
| 1955 | 32 | #1,877 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 45 | #1,505 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 39 | #1,565 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 33 | #1,712 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 46 | #1,382 | 0.03 |
| 1950 | 31 | #1,680 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 38 | #1,488 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 49 | #1,313 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 34 | #1,633 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 29 | #1,646 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 37 | #1,311 | 0.03 |
| 1944 | 25 | #1,662 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 29 | #1,555 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 34 | #1,387 | 0.03 |
| 1941 | 29 | #1,446 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 22 | #1,682 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 25 | #1,514 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 19 | #1,805 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 17 | #1,915 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 18 | #1,802 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 19 | #1,780 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,569 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 14 | #2,161 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 14 | #2,236 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,425 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 27 | #1,500 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 26 | #1,526 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 32 | #1,365 | 0.03 |
| 1927 | 27 | #1,586 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 38 | #1,264 | 0.03 |
| 1925 | 33 | #1,410 | 0.03 |
| 1924 | 34 | #1,411 | 0.03 |
| 1923 | 39 | #1,245 | 0.03 |
| 1922 | 31 | #1,464 | 0.03 |
| 1921 | 39 | #1,237 | 0.03 |
| 1920 | 37 | #1,256 | 0.03 |
| 1919 | 44 | #1,105 | 0.04 |
| 1918 | 43 | #1,129 | 0.04 |
| 1917 | 37 | #1,183 | 0.03 |
| 1916 | 38 | #1,147 | 0.04 |
| 1915 | 33 | #1,192 | 0.03 |
| 1914 | 31 | #1,080 | 0.04 |
| 1913 | 26 | #1,067 | 0.04 |
| 1912 | 17 | #1,299 | 0.03 |
| 1911 | 12 | #1,374 | 0.03 |
| 1910 | 16 | #1,113 | 0.04 |
| 1909 | 13 | #1,152 | 0.04 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,871 | 0.02 |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,643 | 0.02 |
| 1905 | 5 | #1,937 | 0.02 |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,490 | 0.03 |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,599 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Alexandria a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alexandria has been given almost only to girls: 230 boys in 122 years of records.
Girls and boys named Alexandria: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alexandria, and how old are they?
102,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 104,778 Americans ever recorded as Alexandria. The median Alexandria alive today is 28 years old; half are between 20 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 84,197 people named Alexandria (83,965 women and girls, 232 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 98,051 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 134 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 655 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,070 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 42,600 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 42,100 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 14,400 |
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 Alexandria born?
The states with the most babies named Alexandria are California, Texas and Florida, with 32% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 79 | #426 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 73 | #457 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 44 | #426 | 1.1× |
| New York | 28 | #586 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 28 | #401 | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 26 | #427 | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 25 | #452 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 24 | #436 | 1.0× |
| Arizona | 22 | #317 | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 21 | #487 | 0.8× |
Where Alexandria is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Alexandria is most over-represented in Tennessee: since 1910 it was given 1.3 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 Alexandria 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 363,397 babies since 1880, Alexandria is the second most given (29% of them). In 2025 it was given to 647 of their 1,975 babies (33%), again the second most given.
| Name | Since 1880 | Births 2025 | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alexandra | 246,320 | 1,314 | 1993 |
| Alexandria | 104,778 | 647 | 1993 |
| Alexandrea | 8,656 | 14 | 1995 |
| Alixandra | 984 | under 5 | 1991 |
| Alexanderia | 745 | under 5 | 1993 |
| Alyxandra | 742 | under 5 | 1991 |
| Alyxandria | 600 | under 5 | 1993 |
| Alixandria | 572 | under 5 | 1991 |
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 Alexandria
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 Alexandria and names like it
- Compare Alexandria and AlexandraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sAlexandria peaked in 1993.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alexandria since 1910.
- Ancient Greek namesWiktionary’s origin for Alexandria: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Alexandria.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Alexandria alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with AMost given first.