Oleksandr
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/oʊlɛksændɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Oleksandr 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 Oleksandr 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Oleksandr 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)
Oleksandr 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 Russian, var of Aleksandr.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In English, Oleksandr (transliteration of Олександр)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Oleksandr Murashkob. 1875UAUkrainian painter (1875–1919)
- Alexander Archipenkob. 1887USAmerican sculptor and artist of Ukrainian origin (1887–1964)
- Les Kurbasb. 1887UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian and Soviet actor, theatre director, film director (1887—1937)
- Oleksandr Dovzhenkob. 1894UASoviet Ukrainian screenwriter, film producer and director (1894–1956)
- Oleksandr Turchynovb. 1964UAUkrainian politician, screenwriter, and Doctor of Economic Sciences
- Oleksandr Syrskyib. 1965UAUkrainian general (born 1965)
- Oleksandr Shovkovskiyb. 1975UAUkrainian footballer
- Aleksandr Zakharchenkob. 1976UAnot in their usual nameHead and Prime Minister of the Donetsk People's Republic
- Oleksandr Usykb. 1987UAUkrainian boxer
- Oleksandr Zinchenkob. 1996UAUkrainian 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 50 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.5K | #5,029 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 1.6K | #308 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 1.6K | — |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 449 | #484 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 11 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 9 | #5,029 |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name 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 Oleksandr?
- In the etymology graph, Alejandro, Alexander and Alexandre are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Oleksandr?
- A machine transcription gives /oʊlɛksændɹ/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.
- Is Oleksandr a male or female name?
- Oleksandr 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 Oleksandr 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 Oleksandr?
- In the United States, the national register counted 556,757 people named Alexander in 2020, about 1 in 597 residents.
- How common is Oleksandr compared with other names?
- In Russia, Oleksandr is the most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Oleksandr?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/oleksandrThe 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, “Oleksandr” — the most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.