Alexandrine

Girls' name

Alexandrian, through Alexandrine

Alexandrine has been given to 26 babies in the U.S. since 1895. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1918, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Alexandrine, 2007

1 in 800,000

Alexandrine over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alexandrine: meaning, origin, and history

Alexandrian, through Alexandrine

French

What Alexandrine means

Alexandrine belongs to the name family reached through Alexandrine → Alexandrine. Its meaning is “Alexandrian”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From French Alexandrine. By surface analysis, Alexandra + -ine.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Alexandrine (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Alexandrine is used in English and French. Its origins include French.

Alexandrine comes through French Alexandrine.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alexandrina and Alexandrine.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Alexandrine is pronounced /a.lɛk.sɑ̃.dʁin/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 26 girls were recorded with the name Alexandrine between 1895 and 2007. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1918; its best national rank was #1,598 in 1895.

How common is Alexandrine?

Alexandrine had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2007, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2007: 1 in 800,000; 5 of 3,997,748 births
Among girls only: 1 in 384,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2007: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 554,207 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Alexandrine sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2007 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 554,207 children born in 2007 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alexandrine. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alexandrines were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alexandrine was born before 1999 — so the typical Alexandrine is around 26 today.

Median birth year: 1999; About 26 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 38.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 57.7%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 15; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 38.5% of all recorded uses (10).

Is Alexandrine 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1918 (6)
Years since peak: 107; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #1,598; 1895

Spellings of Alexandrine

Alexandrine is not the most common spelling — Alexandria is, with 98.7% against Alexandrine's 0.02%.

Alexandria98.7%104,548
Alejandrina1.2%1,321
Alexandrine0.02%26

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.

Alexandrine around the world

Where Alexandrine 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.

France
1900–2022
#6,678
in 2022
Canada
1991–2017
#2,633
in 2017

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Alexandrine by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #1,598; 1895
Peak year: 1918; 6 that year
First recorded: 1895
Last recorded: 2007
All-time count: 26
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Alexandrine

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

Sibling names for Alexandrine

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

For a sister

Winnifred Johnie Ray Lida Maybelle Floy Garnet Mathilda

For a brother

Granville Valentine Ellsworth Orval Buster Sol Omer Ferdinand

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