Alexandra

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Alexandra boys named Alexandra

By the numbers

Total US births

246,320

Estimated living today

240,000

Median age today

28

Peak year

1993

Best rank

28th

Rank in 2025

237th

First recorded

1894

Girls / boys

245,451 / 869

How old the living Alexandras are

born that year still alive today

Of the 246,320 babies given the name since 1894, about 240,000 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 49,000 of them are children and 2,300 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1997 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 Ancient Greek

From Ancient Greek Ἀλεξάνδρα. Feminine form of Alexander (“the man who repels [enemies]”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Alexandras

• Alexandra Kollontai (1872–1952)Soviet diplomat
• Alexandra Daddario (born 1986)American actress
• Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse) (1872–1918)Empress consort of Russia
• Alexandra of Denmark (1844–1925)Queen consort of the United Kingdom from 1901 to 1910
• Alexandra Kosteniuk (born 1984)Russian and Swiss chess player
• Alexandra Feodorovna (1798–1860)empress consort of Russia from 1825 to 1855
• Alexandra David-Néel (1868–1969)French explorer, spiritualist, Buddhist, Taoist, anarchist and writer
• Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway (born 2004)Norwegian princess

People named Alexandra with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Alexandra is most common

• CA35,483
• NY24,477
• TX20,030
• FL14,729
• IL12,200
• NJ10,989
• PA10,796
• MA8,958
• OH8,049
• MI6,985

Relative to how many babies each state records, Alexandra is most concentrated in Nevada (2.1×), Connecticut (1.8×), Florida (1.8×), the District of Columbia (1.7×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1993

The most popular girls’ names the year Alexandra peaked:

• Jessica
• Ashley
• Sarah
• Samantha
• Emily
• Brittany

All the names of 1993

Alexandra elsewhere

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.

Alexandra: births by region

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, Alexandra is most concentrated in Geneva, where 0.19% of children were given it – 193 of them.

Alexandra: rank by region

In 2025, Alexandra was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.

In 2018, Alexandra was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

In 2025, Alexandra was given 2 times or more in 2 regions of Poland.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Alexandra appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (65th), Province of Flemish Brabant (164th) and Province of Antwerp (276th).

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.

Alexandra by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Alexandra 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.

Among girls in Finland this is mostly a middle name: of the 14,963 who carry it, 2,119 go by it.

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, 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 Alexandra lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 20,902 women called Alexandra 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

Listed in 51 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 1 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

• Alexander
• Alexis
• Alex
• Alejandro
• Alexa
• Alexandria
• Alec
• Alejandra
• Alexia
• Alessandra
• Alexus
• Aleah

Alexandra against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Alexandra vs Alexander
• Alexandra vs Alexis
• Alexandra vs Alex
• Alexandra vs Alejandro
• Alexandra vs Alexa
• Alexandra vs Alexandria

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