Alessandra
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Alessandra is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 96th most common given name. In Portuguese, recorded as a female given name, masculine equivalent Alessandro.
- ITItaly≈1 in 305(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 894
- PEPeru≈1 in 6.4K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 299 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 305 (inferred from the name graph)
236,803 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Italian; feminine form of Alessandro, of Alexandra
Sources 1
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Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
How Alessandra is read(measured from records)
Alessandra is one spelling over 4 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.
- Portuguese67%
a female given name, masculine equivalent Alessandro
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Italian12%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Alessandra in Italian.
- Spanish10%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Alessandra in Spanish.
- English5.3%
Italian; feminine form of Alessandro, of Alexandra
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A female given name from Italian, equivalent to English Alexandra.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Italian feminine form of Alexander
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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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Alessandra 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #96 | 236,803 | 1 in 894 | 244K | Alessandra | 209 |
| IT Italy | #238 | ≈200,000 est. | ≈1 in 305 | 372 | Alessandra | 160 |
| US United States | — | 20,401 | 1 in 16K | 20K | Alessandra | 299 |
| PE Peru | #515 | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | — | Alessandra | 78 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,471 | 1 in 20K | 2.5K | Alessandra | 95 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | 6 | Alessandra | 59 |
| PT Portugal | #512 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 7.7K | listed | Alessandra | 64 |
236,803 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); the pt-irn-lista-nomes register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Alessandra is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Se Alexandra.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In French, Variante italienne d’Alexandra, du grec Alexandros, « qui protège les hommes ».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
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)
- Princess Alexandra of Hanoverb. 1882DEnot in their usual namePrincess of Great Britain and Ireland, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg
- Alessandra Panarob. 1939ITItalian actress (1939–2019)
- Alessandra Mussolinib. 1962ITItalian former politician, model and singer
- Alessandra Ferrib. 1963ITItalian ballet dancer (born 1963)
- Alessandra Rosaldob. 1971MXMexican actress, singer and dancer
- Alessandra Ambrosiob. 1981BRBrazilian model
- Alessandra Mastronardib. 1986ITItalian actress
- Alessandra Torresanib. 1987USAmerican actress
- Alessandra Perillib. 1988SMSammarinese target shooter
- Alessandra Meleb. 2002ITNorwegian-Italian singer
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 87 sources across 42 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 244K | #212 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 237K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 236K | #132 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 20K | #1,581 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 2.5K | #1,503 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 2.2K | #811 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 1.4K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1K | #132 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 697 | — |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 372 | #85 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 42 | #1,581 |
| PT Portugal | IRN — Lista de Nomes Próprios admitidos | — | — | — |
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)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- Where does the name Alessandra come from?
- Italian; feminine form of Alessandro, of Alexandra Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- Is Alessandra a male or female name?
- Alessandra 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.
- What are other forms of the name Alessandra?
- In the etymology graph, Alejandra, Alexandra and Sandrine are forms of the same name in other languages; Sandra and Alessa are recorded short or pet forms.
- What does the name Alessandra mean?
- In Portuguese, a female given name, masculine equivalent Alessandro
- In which country does Alessandra have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 237 thousand people named Alessandra, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alessandra.
- How common is the name Alessandra?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 236,803 people named Alessandra in 2022, about 1 in 894 residents.
- How common is Alessandra compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Alessandra is the 96th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/alessandraThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Alessandra” — the 96th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.