Alessandro
About 12,002 American babies have been named Alessandro since 1933, most of them around 2025. In 2025 it ranked 497th. About 12,000 Alessandros are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 12.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Alessandro
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 12,002
- Estimated living today
- 12,000
- Median age today
- 12
- Peak year
- 2025
- Best rank
- 497th
- Rank in 2025
- 497th
- First recorded
- 1933
How old the living Alessandros are
born that year still alive today
Of the 12,002 babies given the name since 1933, about 12,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 7,800 of them are children and 40 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2013 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 Italian
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Alessandros
- Alessandro Volta (1745–1827)Italian chemist and physicist
- Alessandro Manzoni (1785–1873)Italian writer and poet
- Alessandro Del Piero (born 1974)Italian association football player
- Alessandro Nesta (born 1976)Italian association football player and manager
- Alessandro Santos (born 1977)Brazilian-Japanese association football player
- Alessandro Scarlatti (1660–1725)Italian composer
- Alessandro Florenzi (born 1991)Italian association football player
- Alessandro Costacurta (born 1966)Italian association football player
People named Alessandro with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Alessandro is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Alessandro is most concentrated in Nevada (3.9×), Florida (3.9×), California (2.6×), Arizona (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2025
The most popular boys’ names the year Alessandro peaked:
Alessandro elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italy boys | Alessandro | 193,505 | — |
| France boys | Alessandro | 4,180 | 357th |
| Switzerland boys | Alessandro | 3,178 | 30th |
| Belgium boys | Alessandro | 1,881 | 120th |
| England and Wales boys | Alessandro | 1,609 | 494th |
| Italy girls | Alessandro | 773 | — |
| Poland boys | Alessandro | 380 birth registrations | 209th |
| Scotland boys | Alessandro | 82 | 291st |
| Ireland boys | Alessandro | 55 | 459th |
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.
Alessandro: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Alessandro | 1,978 | 0.159% | 43rd |
| French boys | Switzerland | Alessandro | 464 | 0.107% | 61st |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Alessandro | 735 | 1.128% | 2nd |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Alessandro | 1 | 0.027% | 19th |
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, Alessandro is most concentrated in Ticino, where 1.15% of children were given it – 717 of them.
Alessandro: rank by region
In 2025, Alessandro was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Alessandro | 714 | 7 |
| Wallonia | Alessandro | 152 | 19 |
In 2024, Alessandro was among the 10 most common names in 19 regions of Italy. It has come first somewhere in 17 different years.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Piemonte | Alessandro | 8 | 233 |
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Alessandro | 4 | 5 |
| Lombardia | Alessandro | 4 | 745 |
| Provincia Autonoma di Trento | Alessandro | 8 | 30 |
| Veneto | Alessandro | 5 | 316 |
| Friuli-Venezia Giulia | Alessandro | 6 | 62 |
| Liguria | Alessandro | 5 | 81 |
| Emilia-Romagna | Alessandro | 4 | 335 |
| Toscana | Alessandro | 6 | 205 |
| Umbria | Alessandro | 5 | 66 |
| Marche | Alessandro | 4 | 116 |
| Lazio | Alessandro | 7 | 424 |
| Abruzzo | Alessandro | 4 | 102 |
| Molise | Alessandro | 3 | 22 |
| Campania | Alessandro | 7 | 519 |
| Puglia | Alessandro | 4 | 347 |
| Basilicata | Alessandro | 6 | 33 |
| Sicilia | Alessandro | 9 | 329 |
| Sardegna | Alessandro | 6 | 113 |
In 2024, Alessandro was given 2 times or more in 2 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Małopolskie | Alessandro | 241 | 2 |
| Mazowieckie | Alessandro | 280 | 3 |
In 2024, with the country taken in 5 parts rather than 21, Alessandro appears in the lists for Nord-ovest (4th), Nord-est (5th), Centro (6th), Sud (6th) and Isole (10th).
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Alessandro appears in the lists for Province of Walloon Brabant (64th) and Province of Hainaut (131st).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, 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.
Alessandro by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 13 | 405th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Alessandro 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 | Alessandro | 89 | 197 |
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 Alessandro lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 4,942 men called Alessandro 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Alessandro | 449 | 0.842 | 166 |
| Palmas, Las | Alessandro | 454 | 0.780 | 170 |
| Balears, Illes | Alessandro | 298 | 0.479 | 221 |
| Barcelona | Alessandro | 1,003 | 0.344 | 270 |
| Málaga | Alessandro | 260 | 0.297 | 258 |
| Valencia/València | Alessandro | 348 | 0.257 | 321 |
Listed in 47 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 5 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
Alessandro 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.