Alejandra

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Alejandra is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country, where it is the 14th most common given name. Recorded meaning: a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Alexandra.

rarermore common
  • CLChile≈1 in 268(inferred from the name graph)
  • ARArgentina≈1 in 351
  • COColombia≈1 in 394

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Argentina (inferred from the name graph)

≈130,000 people, est.

#195 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

Sources
465 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 268 (inferred from the name graph)

Chile, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Alexandra

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Alejandra counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Alejandra is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#14≈130,000 est.≈1 in 351508Alejandra176
CO Colombia#17≈120,000 est.≈1 in 39438Alejandra203
US United States#80878,4991 in 4.2K78KAlejandra465
CL Chile#9≈68,000 est.≈1 in 26887Alejandra184
ES Spain#12059,2741 in 84459KAlejandra219
BO Bolivia#288≈28,000 est.≈1 in 422—Alejandra81
UY Uruguay—8,7641 in 3878.8K—92

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); the co-datosgov-candidates register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Alejandra is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Aléjandra

  • Lao given name12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, Chile, United States, Peru

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written Älëjändrä, A'Lejandra, Alejandr'A, Alejändrä, Aléjándrá

  • Polish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Poland, Argentina

    Also written Alëjąňdrą, Älêjåndrä

  • Russian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Peru, Russia

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Älëjändrä

  • Croatian given name16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Argentina, Peru

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Alehandra, Алехандра, Ãlejandra, A̶l̶e̶j̶a̶n̶d̶r̶a̶, Älêjãndrå

  • Hungarian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Hungary, Peru, United States

    Also written Aléjándrá, Áléjándrá

  • Korean given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru, South Korea, Spain

    Also written Álejandra

67 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Alejandra is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, Spanish; feminine form of Alexander

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  • In Spanish, Mankind Feminine Form Of

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  • Spanish form of ALEXANDRA ; feminine of ALEJANDRO .

    as a word

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

190019502000María Cristina de Borbón y Battenberg, b. 1911Alejandra Pizarnik, b. 1936Alejandra Guzmán, b. 1968Alejandra Barros, b. 1971Fairuza Balk, b. 1974Verónica Jaspeado, b. 1976Alejandra Benítez, b. 1980Alejandra Ambrosi, b. 1987Arca, b. 1989Alejandra Valencia, b. 1994

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 77 sources across 42 countries.

Official registers attesting Alejandra
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202078K#673
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—59K#153
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—56K#85
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—8.8K—
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—8.5K—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present)2024508#280
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025486—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020425#673
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—196—
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)202187—
CO ColombiaColombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co)—38#83
AR Argentinadatos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015)201531—

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Alejandra mean, and where does it come from?
a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Alexandra Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Alejandra?
In the etymology graph, Sandra, Alexandra and Sandrine are forms of the same name in other languages; Ale is a recorded short or pet form.
How common is the name Alejandra?
In the United States, the national register counted 78,499 people named Alejandra in 2020, about 1 in 4.2 thousand residents.
How common is Alejandra compared with other names?
In Argentina, Alejandra is the 14th most common given name of 119,825 given names recorded there.
Is Alejandra a male or female name?
Alejandra is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Alejandra have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 130 thousand people named Alejandra in Argentina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alejandra.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Alejandra” — the 14th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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