Alessandro

given name · Latin script

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

Alessandro is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country. In Italian, recorded as a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Alexander.

rarermore common
  • ITItaly≈1 in 132(inferred from the name graph)
  • BRBrazil1 in 1.5K
  • USUnited States1 in 32K

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.

Italy (inferred from the name graph)

≈470,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
231 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 132 (inferred from the name graph)

Italy, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

AlessandroLatin(measured from records)
ალესსანდროGeorgian(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)

Italian; masculine form of Alexandra, see Sanders

Sources 1

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Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

How Alessandro is read(measured from records)

Alessandro is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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.

  • Italian40%

    a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Alexander

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    Dal greco: «salvatore di uomini».

    as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

    forma italiana de Alexander

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • Portuguese32%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Alessandro in Portuguese.

  • Spanish8.9%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Alessandro in Spanish.

  • German7.1%

    in den i97oer-Jahren entlehnter männl. Vom., italienische Form von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • English6.4%

    Italian; masculine form of Alexandra, see Sanders

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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)

Alessandro 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 Alessandro is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy#318≈470,000 est.≈1 in 1324.2KAlessandro170
BR Brazil#241144,0581 in 1.5K150KAlessandro219
US United States—10,2451 in 32K10KAlessandro231
CH Switzerland#990≈6,700 est.≈1 in 1.3K78Alessandro55
FR France—≈5,600 est.≈1 in 12K4.1KAlessandro3
BE Belgium—≈3,600 est.≈1 in 3.3K61Alessandro39
MD Moldova—6221 in 5.4K622—3

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; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); e-services.md — living population register; FSO — Vornamen der Neugeborenen und Wohnbevölkerung; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Alessandro is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Germany, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Alessàndro, 'Alessandro, Alessandrò, ́alessandro, Álêssândro

  • Italian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, United Kingdom, France

    Also written 'Alessandro

  • French given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Italy, Belgium, United States

    Also written Alessàndro, Àléssàndro, Alèssàndrò, Àlèssàndrò

  • Russian given name33 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, Russia, Ukraine, Croatia

    Languages: Russian, Croatian, Ukrainian

    Also written Алессандро, Alesandro, Алесандро, Alessandrò, Ẳleṩṩandro

  • Arabic given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United Arab Emirates, United States, Israel

    Languages: Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic

    Also written אלסנדרו, Alexandro, Alessandrina, Āľėśšăňďřő

58 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)

Alessandro 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.

  • In Swedish, Se Alexander.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

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)

1400160018002000Sandro Botticelli, b. 1445Paulus III, b. 1468Alessandro Farnese, b. 1520Gregory XV, b. 1554Alessandro Volta, b. 1745Giosuè Carducci, b. 1835Sandro Pertini, b. 1896Alessandro Pavolini, b. 1903Giancarlo Esposito, b. 1958Alessandro Del Piero, b. 1974
  • Sandro Botticellib. 1445ITnot in their usual nameItalian painter (1445–1510)
  • Paulus IIIb. 1468ITnot in their usual namepope of the Catholic Church from 1534 to 1549 (1468–1549)
  • Alessandro Farneseb. 1520ITItalian cardinal and diplomat (1520–1589)
  • Gregory XVb. 1554ITnot in their usual namepope of the Catholic Church from 1621 to 1623 (1554–1623)
  • Alessandro Voltab. 1745ITItalian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)
  • Giosuè Carduccib. 1835ITnot in their usual nameItalian poet and literary critic (1835-1907)
  • Sandro Pertinib. 1896ITnot in their usual nameItalian journalist, resistance leader and politician, President of Italy from 1978 to 1985
  • Alessandro Pavolinib. 1903FRItalian politician and writer (1903-1945)
  • Giancarlo Espositob. 1958USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor
  • Alessandro Del Pierob. 1974ITItalian 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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 95 sources across 44 countries.

Official registers attesting Alessandro
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—150K#325
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022144K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—143K#234
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202010K#2,424
IT ItalyISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend)20244.2K#5
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20244.1K#446
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)20202.1K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—855#234
MD Moldovae-services.md — living population register—622#421
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025608—
CH SwitzerlandFSO — Vornamen der Neugeborenen und Wohnbevölkerung202478#90
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202036#2,424

Reference works 8

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
  • 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

In which country does Alessandro have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 472 thousand people named Alessandro in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alessandro.
Where does the name Alessandro come from?
Italian; masculine form of Alexandra, see Sanders Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
What are other forms of the name Alessandro?
In the etymology graph, Alejandro, Alexander and Alexandre are forms of the same name in other languages; Sandro and Ale are recorded short or pet forms.
Is Alessandro a male or female name?
Alessandro 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 common is the name Alessandro?
In Brazil, the national register counted 144,058 people named Alessandro in 2022, about 1 in 1.5 thousand residents.
How common is Alessandro compared with other names?
In Italy, Alessandro is the 318th most common given name of 102,667 given names recorded there.
What does the name Alessandro mean?
In Italian, a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Alexander

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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, “Alessandro” — the 318th most common given name in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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