Aleksandr
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Russian: "steadfast"
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˌæɫəkˈsændɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Aleksandr is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the most common given name.
- RURussia≈1 in 26as Александр(inferred from the name graph)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 26as Олександр
- BYBelarus≈1 in 48as Александр
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Aleksandr itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- #4 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 633 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 26 (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,500,000 named Александр, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Russia, est., as Александр
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
5 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Александр in RU Russia, BY Belarus, CN China, Олександр in UA Ukraine, Alexander in US United States and Alexandre in BR Brazil.
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)
"steadfast."
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
How Aleksandr is read(measured from records)
Aleksandr is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Russian73%
"steadfast."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
de alexein, défendre et andros, homme.
as a nameRussian Names
- English7.4%
A transliteration of the Russian male given name Алекса́ндр (Aleksándr)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Aleksandr 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #1 | ≈5,500,000 est. | ≈1 in 26 | #1 | Александр | 308 |
| UA Ukraine | #1 | ≈1,700,000 est. | ≈1 in 26 | listed | Олександр | 205 |
| US United States | #171 | 556,757as Alexander | 1 in 597 | 554K | Alexander | 633 |
| CN China | — | ≈430,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Александр | 82 |
| BR Brazil | #40 | 422,722as Alexandre | 1 in 501 | 444K | Alexandre | 281 |
| BY Belarus | #2 | ≈200,000 est. | ≈1 in 48 | 110 | Александр | 101 |
| MD Moldova | #6 | 58,511as Alexandru | 1 in 58 | 59K | Alexandr | 64 |
| LV Latvia | #4 | 31,483as Aleksandrs | 1 in 60 | 31K | אלכסנדר | 67 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); e-services.md — living population register; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population 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)
Aleksandr is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Usual spelling in the Roman alphabet of the Russian form of ALEXANDER . Feminine form: Aleksandra .
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)
- Alexander I of Russiab. 1777RUThe tenth Emperor of Russia (1777–1825)
- Alexander III of Russiab. 1845RUEmperor of Russia from 1881 to 1894
- Aleksandr Popovb. 1859RURussian physicist (1859–1906)
- Alexander Scriabinb. 1872RURussian composer and pianist (1872–1915)
- Aleksandr Vasil'evič Kolčakb. 1874RURussian admiral and military leader of the White movement (1874-1920)
- Aleksandr Blokb. 1880RURussian poet (1880–1921)
- Alexander Friedmannb. 1888RURussian mathematician (1888-1925)
- Alexander Alekhineb. 1892FRRussian-French chess player (1892–1946)
- Alexander Pokryshkinb. 1913RUSoviet aviator (1913-1985)
- Alexander Lukashenkab. 1954BYPresident of the Republic of Belarus
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 70 sources across 36 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 9.8K | #2,501 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 466 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 452 | #632 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 403 | #510 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 44 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 39 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 39 | #78,870 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1990 | 20 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 16 | #2,501 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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 Aleksandr mean, and where does it come from?
- "steadfast." Recorded by A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996).
- What are other forms of the name Aleksandr?
- In the etymology graph, Alejandro, Alexander and Alexandre are forms of the same name in other languages; Sasha and Shura are recorded short or pet forms.
- How do you pronounce Aleksandr?
- A machine transcription gives /ˌæɫəkˈsændɝ/ (IPA) for Russian.
- Is Aleksandr a male or female name?
- Aleksandr 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.
- In which country does Aleksandr have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.5 million people named Александр in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Aleksandr?
- In the United States, the national register counted 556,757 people named Alexander in 2020, about 1 in 597 residents.
- How common is Aleksandr compared with other names?
- In Russia, Aleksandr is the most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aleksandrThe 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, “Aleksandr” — the most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.