Alejandro vs Alexandra
American parents have registered 246,320 Alexandras since 1880, against 147,470 Alejandros. But in 2025 it was Alejandro that was commoner, 1,842 babies to 1,314.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Alejandro Alexandra
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 132 years in which either name was published, Alexandra for 75 years and Alejandro for 57 years. The lead changed hands 22 times.
- 1885–1901 Alejandro ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1905–1919 Alexandra ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1920–1937 Alejandro ahead
- 1942–1947 Alexandra ahead
- 1951–1964 Alejandro ahead, apart from 2 short spells
- 1965–1970 Alexandra ahead
- 1971–1981 Alejandro ahead
- 1982–2020 Alexandra ahead
- 2021–2025 Alejandro ahead
10 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Alejandro | Alexandra | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 147,470 | 246,320 |
| Most in one year | 4,577 | 10,720 |
| Babies in 2025 | 1,842 | 1,314 |
| Estimated living today | 140,000 | 240,000 |
| Median age today | 24 | 28 |
| Peak year | 2001 | 1993 |
| Best rank | 88th boys | 28th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 195th | 237th |
| First recorded | 1885 | 1894 |
| Girls / boys | 846 / 146,624 | 245,451 / 869 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Alexandras alive today are over 28; half the Alejandros are over 24. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Alejandro Arizona (3.5×), California (3.3×), Nevada (3.1×)
- Alexandra Nevada (2.1×), Connecticut (1.8×), Florida (1.8×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
Both names abroad
Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.
| Country | Alejandro | Alexandra |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 111,295 | 1,157 |
| France | 755 | 93,530 |
| England and Wales | 717 | 19,657 |
| Italy | 757 | 3,118 |
| Belgium | 520 | 2,656 |
| Norway | 172 | 2,802 |
| Scotland | 17 | 2,598 |
| Ireland | 43 | 2,342 |
| Switzerland | 547 | 1,785 |
| Poland | 91 | 1,732 |
Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Alejandro and Alexandra.