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Alessandro

#497 in 2025Boys' name

To repel, through Ἀλέξανδρος

Alessandro has been given to 12,002 babies in the U.S. since 1933. In 2025 it ranked #497 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 608 recorded.

Babies named Alessandro, 2025

1 in 5,450

Alessandro over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alessandro: meaning, origin, and history

To repel, through Ἀλέξανδρος

Italian and Ancient Greek

What Alessandro means

Alessandro belongs to the name family reached through Alessandro → Alessandro → Ἀλέξανδρος. Its meaning is “to repel”.

Origin, language, and formation

Alessandro is used in English, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. Its origins include Italian and Ancient Greek.

Alessandro comes through Italian Alessandro.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alexander, Alexandre, Alexandro, Alejandro, Alessandro and Ἀλέξανδρος.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Alessandro is pronounced /a.lesˈsan.dro/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 12,002 boys were recorded with the name Alessandro between 1933 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 608 in 2025; its best national rank was #497 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #626 in 2020 to #497 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #683 in 2015 to #497 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 Alessandro?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 5,450
608 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 2,810
0.04% of boys
Rank, 2025
#497
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
3,781 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alessandro 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 1002%
School of 5009%

Put another way: gather 3,781 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alessandro. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alessandros were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alessandro was born before 2012 — so the typical Alessandro is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
32.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
81.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
11,992
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 32.6% of all recorded uses (3,910).

Is Alessandro 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
+57
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+129
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+186
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.64×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (608)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
9.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#497
2025

Spellings of Alessandro

Alessandro is not the most common spelling — Alejandro is, with 87.6% against Alessandro's 7.2%.

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 Alessandro is used

Across 2016–2025, Alessandro was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 1,389 boys, against 1 in 3,132 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in 50,000).

272 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 1,389
  2. 2Nevada1 in 1,667
  3. 3California1 in 1,887
  4. 4Texas1 in 2,222
  5. 5New Jersey1 in 2,381
  6. 6Arizona1 in 2,439
  7. 7New York1 in 2,941
  8. 8Illinois1 in 3,125

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.

Geographically, Alessandro is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 83% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Alessandro around the world

Where Alessandro 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
    #873
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1976–2024
    #727
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    1966–2025
    #829
    in 2025
  • France
    1951–2025
    #566
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #510
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1957–2013
    #218
    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 Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Alessandro

People whose public names include Alessandro, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Alessandro in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Alessandro. Linked forms have their own page here.

AleksSandroAlexandrAlejandroAleksandrAlexanderAlexandreAlexandruOleksandrAleksandarAleksandrsAlexsandroSándorLisàndarLissanderAleksandroAlissandruAleksandrasAleksanteriAlex Sandro

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Alessandro by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#497
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 129
Best rank ever
#497
2025
Peak year
2025
608 that year
First recorded
1933
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
12,002
Count in 2025
608

Names similar to Alessandro

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

AlexandroAlejandroAlesandroAlexzanderAleksanderAlexsandroAlegandroAlexandreAlexandrosAleksandarAlexsanderAleczanderAlekzanderAlexavierAleksandrAlexjandroLeandroAlexandruAlexxanderAlessioLisandroAleisterAlekxanderAlexandra

Names with a curve like Alessandro

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

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Sibling names for Alessandro

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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