Alexandra

given name · Latin script

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

Alexandra is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 40th most common given name. In English, recorded as A female given name from Ancient Greek.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.4K(measured from records)
  • PLPoland1 in 98as Aleksandra
  • RSSerbia≈1 in 115as Aleksandra

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 Alexandra 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)

≈930,000 named Александра, est.

#91 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

8 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
459 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 116 (inferred from the name graph)

Moldova

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

AlexandraLatin(measured from records)
АлександраCyrillic(measured from records)
אלכסנדרהHebrew(measured from records)
ΑλεξανδραGreek(measured from records)
ԱլեքսանդրաArmenian(measured from records)
อเล็กซานดร้าThai(measured from records)
ალექსანდრაGeorgian(measured from records)
알렉산드라Hangul(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Александра in RU Russia, BY Belarus, Aleksandra in PL Poland, RS Serbia and Олександра in UA Ukraine.

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)

Latinate feminine form of Alexander. It was very little used in the Englishspeaking world before the 20th century, when it was brought in from Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. It owes its sudden rise in popularity in Britain at the end of the roth century to Queen Alexandra, Danish wife of Edward VII. 7 ALICIA

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

How Alexandra is read(measured from records)

Alexandra is one spelling over 5 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.

  • English32%

    A female given name from Ancient Greek.

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

  • Spanish28%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Alexandra in Spanish.

  • French13%

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

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

    Un alexandra est un cocktail qui mélange du lait chocolaté et de l’alcool (généralement du cognac). Le rapport avec le prénom n’est expliqué par aucun étymologiste.

    as a name2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)

    Féminin d’Alexandre, du grec Alexandros, « qui protège les hommes »; fêtée le 21 avril.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

    Version féminine d’Alexandre, du grec, « celle qui repousse ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • German7.5%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Alexandra in German.

  • Portuguese6.0%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Alexandra in Portuguese.

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)

Alexandra 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 Alexandra is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#40≈930,000 est.≈1 in 153#17Александра227
PL Poland#45390,150as Aleksandra1 in 98390KAleksandra233
UA Ukraine#40≈280,000 est.≈1 in 159listedОлександра124
BR Brazil#381236,803as Alessandra1 in 894244KAlexandra194
US United States—229,4371 in 1.4K228KAlexandra459
BY Belarus#47≈63,000 est.≈1 in 14917Александра53
RS Serbia#19≈61,000 est.≈1 in 115listedAleksandra100
MD Moldova#30229,0421 in 11629KAlexandra19

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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; e-services.md — living population register; Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE). 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)

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

  • English given name89 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Swedish

    Also written Aleksandra, Alexandrae, Alex-Andra, A-Lexandra, Alexandra'

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Alex-Andra

  • Romanian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, United States, Spain, Italy

  • Indonesian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Ecuador, Peru

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Alexandra

  • a separate given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Russia, Canada

    Also written Âlëxändrå, Älêxåndrä, A̶l̶ê̶x̶â̶n̶d̶r̶â̶, Ålęxãndrā, A̶l̶e̶x̶a̶n̶d̶r̶a̶

94 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)

Alexandra 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.

  • Latinate feminine form of Alexander. It was very little used in the Englishspeaking world before the 20th century, when it was brought in from Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. It owes its sudden rise in popularity in Britain at the end of the roth century to Queen Alexandra, Danish wife of Edward VII. 7 ALICIA

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

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)

1850190019502000Alexandra Feodorovna, b. 1872Alexandra Kollontai, b. 1872Virginia Woolf, b. 1882Louise Mountbatten, b. 1889Elizabeth II, b. 1926Sigourney Weaver, b. 1949Sasha Cohen, b. 1984Inna, b. 1986Alexandra Daddario, b. 1986Alexandra Elbakyan, b. 1988

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 131 sources across 66 countries.

Official registers attesting Alexandra
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020228K#245
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202291K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—90K#505
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—90K#346
MD Moldovae-services.md — living population register—29K#37
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—4.6K#269
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)20264.6K#269
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20251.3K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020954#245
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—775#346
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)2020647—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—3#26,978

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 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

What are other forms of the name Alexandra?
In the etymology graph, Sandra, Alejandra and Sandrine are forms of the same name in other languages; Ali, Allie and Ally are recorded short or pet forms.
Where does the name Alexandra come from?
Latinate feminine form of Alexander. It was very little used in the Englishspeaking world before the 20th century, when it was brought in from Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
Is Alexandra a male or female name?
Alexandra 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 does the name Alexandra mean?
In English, A female given name from Ancient Greek.
In which country does Alexandra have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 928 thousand people named Александра in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Alexandra most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Alexandra is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 116 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Alexandra?
In the United States, the national register counted 229,437 people named Alexandra in 2020, about 1 in 1.4 thousand residents.
How common is Alexandra compared with other names?
In Russia, Alexandra is the 40th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.

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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, “Alexandra” — the 40th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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