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Skender

Boys' name

English equivalent of Alexander

Skender has been given to 11 babies in the U.S. since 2019. 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 2019, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Skender, 2019

1 in 316,000

Skender over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Skender: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Alexander

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Skender means

Skender is a English equivalent of Alexander.

Origin, language, and formation

Skender is used in Northern Kurdish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alexander.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11 boys were recorded with the name Skender between 2019 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2019; its best national rank was #7,559 in 2019.

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 Skender?

Skender had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 316,000
11 of 3,472,229 births
Among boys only
1 in 163,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
218,798 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Skender 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 2019 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 218,798 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Skender. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Skenders were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Skender was born before 2019 — so the typical Skender is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
11
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Skender 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
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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 2019 (11)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#7,559
2019

Spellings of Skender

Skender is not the most common spelling — Spencer is, with 94.1% against Skender's <0.01%.

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.

Skender around the world

Where Skender 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
    2021–2021
    #4,789
    in 2021
  • France
    1970–2022
    #7,130
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1960–1973
    #454
    in 1973

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Skender by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#7,559
2019
Peak year
2019
11 that year
First recorded
2019
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
11
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Skender

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

BranderFranderLyxanderAvanderIsanderBoulderZhanderLianderJeiderJaiderKeyderWonderKeiderChanderLisanderSneyderJayderSneiderJohanderSnayderBrowderAlanderSzanderSnaider

Sibling names for Skender

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

Explore around Skender

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