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Aleksandar

#4,710 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly to repel, through Ᾰ̓λέξᾰνδρος

Aleksandar has been given to 1,437 babies in the U.S. since 1967. In 2025 it ranked #4,710 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 56 recorded.

Babies named Aleksandar, 2025

1 in 158,000

Aleksandar over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aleksandar: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly to repel, through Ᾰ̓λέξᾰνδρος

Greek

What Aleksandar means

Aleksandar belongs to the name family reached through Aleksandar → Ᾰ̓λέξᾰνδρος. Its meaning is “to repel”.

Origin, language, and formation

Aleksandar is used in Serbo-Croatian. Its origins include Greek.

Aleksandar comes through Old Church Slavonic Алеѯандръ and Ancient Greek Ᾰ̓λέξᾰνδρος.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alexander and Ᾰ̓λέξᾰνδρος.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Serbo-Croatian, Aleksandar is pronounced /alěksaːndar/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,437 boys were recorded with the name Aleksandar between 1967 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 56 in 2005; its best national rank was #2,149 in 2003.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,542 in 2020 to #4,710 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,600 in 2015 to #4,710 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Aleksandar?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 158,000
21 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 81,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,710
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
109,425 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aleksandar sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 109,425 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aleksandar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aleksandars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aleksandar was born before 2006 — so the typical Aleksandar is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
31.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
66.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,437
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 31.2% of all recorded uses (448).

Is Aleksandar rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−635
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−168
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,110
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.45×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
37.5%
Peak was 2005 (56)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,149
2003

Spellings of Aleksandar

Aleksandar is not the most common spelling — Aleksander is, with 40.1% against Aleksandar's 13.8%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Aleksandar is used

Across 1910–2025, Aleksandar was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 175,497 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 50,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Indiana1 in —
  5. 5Michigan1 in —
  6. 6New York1 in —
  7. 7Ohio1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Aleksandar has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Aleksandar around the world

Where Aleksandar ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #2,440
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2016–2017
    #733
    in 2017
  • Ireland
    2009–2024
    #785
    in 2024
  • France
    1966–2024
    #6,073
    in 2024
  • Norway
    1880–2019
    #446
    in 2019
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,328
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1953–2013
    #499
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Aleksandar by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,710
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 168
Best rank ever
#2,149
2003
Peak year
2005
56 that year
First recorded
1967
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,437
Count in 2025
21

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Sibling names for Aleksandar

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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