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Alexsandra

#13,284 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Alexsandra has been given to 2,422 babies in the U.S. since 1915. In 2025 it ranked #13,284 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 156 recorded.

Babies named Alexsandra, 2025

1 in 553,000

Alexsandra over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alexsandra: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Alexsandra means

Alexsandra is a given name.

The naming story behind Alexsandra

Wikidata records Alexsandra as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q66263987, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,422 girls were recorded with the name Alexsandra between 1915 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 156 in 2006; its best national rank was #1,440 in 2006.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,582 in 2020 to #13,284 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,300 in 2015 to #13,284 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.

How common is Alexsandra?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#13,284
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alexsandra 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 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alexsandra. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alexsandras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alexsandra was born before 2002 — so the typical Alexsandra is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
42.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
53.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,412
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 42.0% of all recorded uses (1,018).

Is Alexsandra 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
+274
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,702
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−8,984
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.18×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
3.8%
Peak was 2006 (156)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,440
2006

Spellings of Alexsandra

Alexsandra is not the most common spelling — Alexandra is, with 54.6% against Alexsandra's 0.54%.

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 Alexsandra is used

Across 1910–2025, Alexsandra was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 65,366 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 33,333
  2. 2Texas1 in 33,333
  3. 3Arizona1 in 50,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 50,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 100,000
  6. 6Nevada1 in 100,000
  7. 7New York1 in 100,000
  8. 8Colorado1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Alexsandra has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Alexsandra around the world

Where Alexsandra 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
    2005–2016
    #5,785
    in 2016
  • Ireland
    2007–2007
    #705
    in 2007
  • France
    2013–2013
    #7,998
    in 2013
  • Canada
    1992–2012
    #2,855
    in 2012
  • South Australia
    1961–2001
    #484
    in 2001

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS 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.

Alexsandra by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#13,284
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,702
Best rank ever
#1,440
2006
Peak year
2006
156 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,422
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Alexsandra

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

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Names with a curve like Alexsandra

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

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Sibling names for Alexsandra

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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