Alejandra
About 54,545 American babies have been named Alejandra since 1900, most of them around 1994. In 2025 it ranked 604th. About 53,000 Alejandras are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 26.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Alejandra boys named Alejandra
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 54,545
- Estimated living today
- 53,000
- Median age today
- 26
- Peak year
- 1994
- Best rank
- 145th
- Rank in 2025
- 604th
- First recorded
- 1900
- Girls / boys
- 54,015 / 530
How old the living Alejandras are
born that year still alive today
Of the 54,545 babies given the name since 1900, about 53,000 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 13,000 of them are children and 280 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1999 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Spanish
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Alejandras
- Alejandra Pizarnik (1936–1972)Argentinian poet
- Alejandra Valencia (born 1994)Mexican archer
- Alejandra Barros (born 1971)Mexican actress
- Alejandra Orozco (born 1997)Mexican diver
- Alejandra Guzmán (born 1968)Mexican musician
- Alejandra García (born 1973)Argentine pole vaulter
- Alejandra Gulla (born 1977)field hockey player
- Alejandra Benítez (born 1980)fencer
People named Alejandra with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Alejandra is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Alejandra is most concentrated in California (4.0×), Nevada (3.6×), Arizona (3.2×), Texas (3.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1994
The most popular girls’ names the year Alejandra peaked:
Alejandra elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spain girls | Alejandra | 32,856 | 24th |
| England and Wales girls | Alejandra | 136 | 2,674th |
| Switzerland girls | Alejandra | 72 | 524th |
| France girls | Alejandra | 50 | 6,146th |
| Belgium girls | Alejandra | 16 | 1,231st |
| Ireland girls | Alejandra | 3 | 873rd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Alejandra: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Alejandra | 58 | 0.005% | 395th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Alejandra | 13 | 0.003% | 617th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Alejandra | 1 | 0.002% | 152nd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Alejandra is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.01% of children were given it – 25 of them.
Alejandra: rank by region
In 2013, Alejandra was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Spain.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Melilla | Alejandra | 9 | 8 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Spain after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Alejandra among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Alejandra | 21 | 78 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Alejandra lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 59,274 women called Alejandra were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cádiz | Alejandra | 2,412 | 3.764 | 58 |
| Madrid | Alejandra | 13,317 | 3.593 | 58 |
| Sevilla | Alejandra | 3,594 | 3.546 | 63 |
| Guadalajara | Alejandra | 456 | 3.244 | 64 |
| Asturias | Alejandra | 1,709 | 3.221 | 70 |
| Toledo | Alejandra | 1,172 | 3.121 | 72 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Alejandra against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.