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Aleksander

#1,425 in 2025Boys' name

To ward off, defend + man

Aleksander has been given to 4,166 babies in the U.S. since 1918. In 2025 it ranked #1,425 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 171 recorded.

Babies named Aleksander, 2025

1 in 26,300

Aleksander over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aleksander: meaning, origin, and history

To ward off, defend + man

Ancient Greek and Latin

What Aleksander means

Aleksander means “to ward off, defend + man”, associated with ἀλέξω and ἀνήρ.

Origin, language, and formation

Aleksander is used in Estonian, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish and Slovene. Its origins include Ancient Greek and Latin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alexander, Алекса́ндр and Aleksanteri.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Norwegian Bokmål, Aleksander is pronounced /a.lɛkˈsan.dər/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,166 boys were recorded with the name Aleksander between 1918 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 171 in 2014; its best national rank was #1,103 in 2009.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,343 in 2020 to #1,425 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,254 in 2015 to #1,425 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Aleksander?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 26,300
126 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 13,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,425
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
18,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aleksander 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 18,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aleksander. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aleksanders were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aleksander was born before 2011 — so the typical Aleksander is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
35.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
78.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,160
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 35.5% of all recorded uses (1,480).

Is Aleksander 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
+248
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−82
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−171
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.88×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
73.7%
Peak was 2014 (171)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,103
2009

Spellings of Aleksander

Aleksander is not the most common spelling — Alexander is, with 97.6% against Aleksander's 0.55%.

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 Aleksander is used

Across 2016–2025, Aleksander was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 4,348 boys, against 1 in 12,799 across all states with data. It was least common in Georgia (1 in 100,000).

123 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 4,348
  2. 2Connecticut1 in 5,000
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 5,556
  4. 4New York1 in 8,333
  5. 5Florida1 in 10,000
  6. 6California1 in 12,500
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 12,500
  8. 8Virginia1 in 12,500

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.

Aleksander around the world

Where Aleksander 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
    #462
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2006–2025
    #495
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2008–2022
    #414
    in 2022
  • Ireland
    2006–2025
    #348
    in 2025
  • France
    1970–2025
    #2,424
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #117
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,390
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1950–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, 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, NISRA 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.

Aleksander by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,425
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 82
Best rank ever
#1,103
2009
Peak year
2014
171 that year
First recorded
1918
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,166
Count in 2025
126

Names similar to Aleksander

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Aleksander

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Aleksander, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Aleksander

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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