Alejandro
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Alexander
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/alexandɾo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Alejandro is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country, where it is the 29th most common given name.
- ESSpain1 in 183(measured from records)
- CLChile≈1 in 211
- ARArgentina≈1 in 219
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- #126 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 526 (measured from records)
- 1 in 183 (inferred from the name graph)
273,491 people
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Alexander
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Alejandro 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #29 | 273,491 | 1 in 183 | 273K | Alejandro | 315 |
| AR Argentina | #10 | ≈210,000 est. | ≈1 in 219 | 2.3K | Alejandro | 217 |
| US United States | #512 | 180,051 | 1 in 1.8K | 179K | Alejandro | 526 |
| CO Colombia | #19 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 291 | 58 | Alejandro | 235 |
| PH Philippines | #165 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Alejandro | 133 |
| CL Chile | #6 | ≈86,000 est. | ≈1 in 211 | 266 | Alejandro | 206 |
| BO Bolivia | #201 | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 293 | — | Alejandro | 101 |
273,491 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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 — Apellidos (person counts, national); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); the co-datosgov-candidates register. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Alejandro is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Alejandro är en spansk form av → Alexander. Alejandra är motsvarande femininform.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In French, Variante espagnole d’Alexandre, du grec Alexandros, « qui protège les hommes ».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In English, A male given name from Spanish, equivalent to English Alexander.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Spanish form of ALEXANDER .
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)
- Fidel Castrob. 1926CUnot in their usual nameCuban politician, author and revolutionary (1926–2016)
- Alejandro Maldonado Aguirreb. 1936GTGuatemalan lawyer, politician and judge. President 2015-2016
- Alejandro Toledob. 1946PEPresident of Peru from 2001 to 2006
- Alejandro Mayorkasb. 1959CUUnited States 7th Secretary of Homeland Security
- Alejandro González Iñárritub. 1963MXMexican film director
- Alejandro Amenábarb. 1972CLSpanish-Chilean film director, screenwriter and composer
- Javier Mascheranob. 1984ARnot in their usual nameArgentine association football player and manager
- Alexis Sánchezb. 1988CLnot in their usual nameChilean footballer (born 1988)
- Exequiel Palaciosb. 1998ARnot in their usual nameArgentine association football player
- Alejandro Garnachob. 2004ESSpanish-Argentine association football player
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 106 sources across 51 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 273K | #15 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 267K | #13 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 179K | #309 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 2K | #73 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 1.8K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 837 | #309 |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2021 | 266 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 191 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 191 | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 58 | #68 |
Reference works 6
- 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
- Wikipedia surname 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 are other forms of the name Alejandro?
- In the etymology graph, Alexander, Alexandre and Oleksandr are forms of the same name in other languages; Ale is a recorded short or pet form.
- What does the name Alejandro mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Alexander Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Alejandro have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 273 thousand people named Alejandro, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alejandro.
- Where is Alejandro most common?
- Alejandro is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 183 people carrying it.
- Is Alejandro a male or female name?
- Alejandro is a male 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.
- How do you pronounce Alejandro?
- A machine transcription gives /alexandɾo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- How common is the name Alejandro?
- In Spain, the national register counted 273,491 people named Alejandro, about 1 in 183 residents.
- How common is Alejandro compared with other names?
- In Spain, Alejandro is the 29th most common given name of 135,644 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/alejandroThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Alejandro” — the 29th most common given name in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.