Alexender
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Alexender has been given to 46 babies in the U.S. since 1991. 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 1993, with 8 recorded.
Babies named Alexender, 2005
1 in 549,000
Alexender over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Alexender?
Alexender had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2005, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2005
- 1 in 549,000
- 7 of 3,844,258 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 285,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2005
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 380,664 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Alexender sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2005 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 380,664 children born in 2005 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alexender. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Alexenders were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Alexender was born before 2000 — so the typical Alexender is around 25 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 58.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 46
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 58.7% of all recorded uses (27).
Is Alexender 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 1993 (8)
- Years since peak
- 32
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Very steady
- 0% average annual change
Spellings of Alexender
Alexender is not the most common spelling — Alexander is, with 98.7% against Alexender's <0.01%.
- Alexander98.7%736,123
- Alexzander1.0%7,456
- Alexsander0.17%1,266
- Alexandar0.09%681
- Alexender<0.01%46
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.
Alexender around the world
Where Alexender 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.
- South Australia1958–1979#486in 1979
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Alexender by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Alexender
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Alexender
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.