Alexandru
Alexandru was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,275 among boys’ names; 614 Americans have been recorded with it since 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alexandru by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Alexandru mean?
Wiktionary, Romanian section
Alexandru is “a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Alexander”
Borrowed from Latin Alexander, from Ancient Greek Ἀλέξανδρος (Aléxandros).
/a.lekˈsan.dru/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Romanian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Alexandru?
#8,275 among boys’ names, 2025
Alexandru fell from #3,985 in 2015 to #8,275 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 13.6 to 5.3 per million.
34 babies in 2006, the peak
Alexandru peaked in 2006, when 34 boys were given it, #3,154 among boys’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 26% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,275 | 5.3 |
| 2024 | 5 | #12,427 | 2.9 |
| 2023 | 8 | #8,954 | 4.7 |
| 2022 | 8 | #9,015 | 4.6 |
| 2021 | 12 | #6,709 | 6.9 |
| 2020 | 13 | #6,305 | 7.5 |
| 2019 | 17 | #5,343 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 21 | #4,607 | 11.6 |
| 2017 | 21 | #4,595 | 11.3 |
| 2016 | 20 | #4,783 | 10.5 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 26 | #3,985 | 13.6 |
| 2014 | 33 | #3,300 | 17.2 |
| 2013 | 21 | #4,467 | 11.1 |
| 2012 | 26 | #3,897 | 13.7 |
| 2011 | 28 | #3,696 | 14.7 |
| 2010 | 18 | #5,051 | 9.4 |
| 2009 | 32 | #3,399 | 16.1 |
| 2008 | 20 | #4,718 | 9.8 |
| 2007 | 33 | #3,312 | 15.9 |
| 2006 | 34 | #3,154 | 16.5 |
| 2005 | 22 | #4,058 | 11.0 |
| 2004 | 26 | #3,533 | 13.1 |
| 2003 | 20 | #4,114 | 10.1 |
| 2002 | 18 | #4,319 | 9.3 |
| 2001 | 22 | #3,718 | 11.3 |
| 2000 | 16 | #4,574 | 8.1 |
| 1999 | 13 | #5,043 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 17 | #4,018 | 8.9 |
| 1997 | 10 | #5,648 | 5.3 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,045 | 2.6 |
| 1995 | 5 | #8,905 | 2.6 |
| 1993 | 7 | #6,835 | 3.6 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,134 | 4.0 |
| 1991 | 5 | #8,252 | 2.5 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,137 | 2.4 |
| 1989 | 5 | #7,936 | 2.5 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,290 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Alexandru a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alexandru has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Alexandru: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alexandru, and how old are they?
An estimated 605 Americans named Alexandru and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 11 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,541 people named Alexandru (2 women and girls, 2,539 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 556 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.6 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 13,001 babies since 1880, Alexandru is the third most given (4.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 125 babies (7.2%), again the third 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 Alexandru
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 Alexandru and names like it
- Compare Alexandru and AlexandroBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAlexandru peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alexandru since 1910.
- Ancient Greek namesWiktionary’s origin for Alexandru: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Alexandru.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Alexandru alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.