Aleksander
Aleksander is a boy's name that peaked in 2014, when it was the 1,117th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 1,425th. About 4,100 Aleksanders are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 14.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Aleksander
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 4,166
- Estimated living today
- 4,100
- Median age today
- 14
- Peak year
- 2014
- Best rank
- 1,117th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,425th
- First recorded
- 1918
How old the living Aleksanders are
born that year still alive today
Of the 4,166 babies given the name since 1918, about 4,100 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 2,500 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2011 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.
Notable Aleksanders
- Aleksander Kwaśniewski (born 1954)President of Poland from 1995 to 2005
- Aleksander Stavre Drenova (1872–1947)Albanian poet
- Aleksander Fredro (1793–1876)Polish writer
- Aleksander Barkov (born 1995)Finnish and Russian ice hockey player
- Aleksander Lesun (born 1988)Belarusian-Russian modern pentathlete
- Aleksander Delchev (born 1971)Bulgarian chess player
- Aleksander Doba (1946–2021)Polish kayaker
- Aleksander Serov (born 1951)Russian singer
People named Aleksander with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Aleksander is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Aleksander is most concentrated in Illinois (3.1×), New Jersey (2.5×), Florida (2.4×), Connecticut (2.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2014
The most popular boys’ names the year Aleksander peaked:
Aleksander elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poland boys | Aleksander | 113,138 birth registrations | 4th |
| Norway boys | Aleksander | 7,775 | 29th |
| England and Wales boys | Aleksander | 2,707 | 233rd |
| Ireland boys | Aleksander | 441 | 163rd |
| Italy boys | Aleksander | 417 | — |
| Belgium boys | Aleksander | 301 | 370th |
| France boys | Aleksander | 250 | 2,065th |
| Scotland boys | Aleksander | 228 | 225th |
| Switzerland boys | Aleksander | 193 | 427th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Aleksander | 54 | 250th |
| Poland girls | Aleksander | 2 birth registrations | 714th |
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.
Aleksander: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Aleksander | 151 | 0.012% | 369th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Aleksander | 34 | 0.008% | 365th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Aleksander | 8 | 0.012% | 117th |
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, Aleksander is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.01% of children were given it – 41 of them.
Aleksander: rank by region
In 2025, Aleksander was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Aleksander | 714 | 7 |
In 2025, Aleksander was given 2 times or more in 16 regions of Poland. It has come first somewhere in 4 different years.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Aleksander | 7 | 258 |
| Kujawsko-Pomorskie | Aleksander | 6 | 216 |
| Lubelskie | Aleksander | 3 | 275 |
| Lubuskie | Aleksander | 7 | 83 |
| Łódzkie | Aleksander | 4 | 318 |
| Małopolskie | Aleksander | 4 | 542 |
| Mazowieckie | Aleksander | 3 | 865 |
| Opolskie | Aleksander | 7 | 75 |
| Podkarpackie | Aleksander | 4 | 309 |
| Podlaskie | Aleksander | 3 | 158 |
| Pomorskie | Aleksander | 7 | 255 |
| Śląskie | Aleksander | 6 | 375 |
| Świętokrzyskie | Aleksander | 2 | 164 |
| Warmińsko-Mazurskie | Aleksander | 2 | 170 |
| Wielkopolskie | Aleksander | 6 | 458 |
| Zachodniopomorskie | Aleksander | 5 | 166 |
In 2022, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Aleksander appears in the lists for Province of West Flanders (195th) and Province of East Flanders (266th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – 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.
Aleksander by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 35 | 285th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Aleksander 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 boys | Aleksander | 349 | 3,509 |
| Finland girls | Aleksander | — | 9 |
Among boys in Finland this is mostly a middle name: of the 3,509 who carry it, 349 go by it.
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 Aleksander lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 374 men called Aleksander were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alicante/Alacant | Aleksander | 38 | 0.038 | 1,658 |
| Málaga | Aleksander | 31 | 0.035 | 1,419 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Aleksander | 16 | 0.030 | 2,406 |
| Girona | Aleksander | 10 | 0.024 | 2,144 |
| Tarragona | Aleksander | 10 | 0.023 | 2,151 |
| Castellón/Castelló | Aleksander | 7 | 0.022 | 2,184 |
Listed in 16 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 36 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Aleksander 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.