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Alexander
Pronounced /ˌælɪɡˈzændɚ/
Rank in 2024
#27
Born in 2024
7,517
Peak year
1993 · #21
Origin
Ancient Greek
Also recorded for girls:10 in 2024 (#10,206)
1880 to 2024
CoolingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 7,517 boys were named Alexander, about 1 in every 228.
- It peaked in 1993 with 20,529 babies, ranked #21.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 728,817 boys have been named Alexander since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Alexander per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 1.4Greatest1901–27
- 0.7Silent1928–45
- 0.6Boomers1946–64
- 1.3Gen X1965–80
- 6.9Millennials1981–96
- 8.9Gen Z1997–12
- 6.4Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 23,828 babies, 1.43 per 1,000. Silent: 14,246 babies, 0.69 per 1,000. Boomers: 22,785 babies, 0.61 per 1,000. Gen X: 36,153 babies, 1.33 per 1,000. Millennials: 210,678 babies, 6.92 per 1,000. Gen Z: 278,580 babies, 8.87 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 138,252 babies, 6.36 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Middle English Alexander, Alexandre, from Latin Alexander, from Ancient Greek Ἀλέξανδρος (Aléxandros), from ἀλέξω (aléxō, “to defend”) + ἀνδρ- (andr-), the stem of ἀνήρ (anḗr, “man”). Doublet of Alastair, Alejandro, Iskandar, Sikandar, Alessandro, and Alexandre.
- A male given name from Ancient Greek, most famously held by Alexander the Great.
- Origin
- Ancient Greek
- Say it
- /ˌælɪɡˈzændɚ/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Alexander, CC BY-SA 4.0.