Alessandro
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Italian: a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Alexander
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 44 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/a.lesˈsan.dro/(recorded in a dictionary) Italian · from Wiktionary
Alessandro is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 84(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 970few records
- BRBrazil1 in 1.5K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 231 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 84 (inferred from the name graph)
≈710,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(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
Cited for this meaning 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%
- 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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Alessandro, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | #318 | ≈710,000 est. | ≈1 in 84 | 4.2K | Alessandro | 170 |
| BR Brazil | #241 | 144,058 | 1 in 1.5K | 150K | Alessandro | 219 |
| US United States | — | 10,245 | 1 in 32K | 10K | Alessandro | 231 |
| CH Switzerland | #990 | ≈9,300 est. | ≈1 in 973 | 78 | Alessandro | 55 |
| ES Spain | — | 4,942 | 1 in 10K | 4.9K | Alessandro | 100 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | 61 | Alessandro | 39 |
| MD Moldova | — | 622 | 1 in 5.4K | 622 | — | 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); 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 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)- 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).
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)95 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 44 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 150K | #325 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 144K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 143K | #234 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 10K | #2,424 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 4.9K | #888 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 4.3K | #442 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 4.2K | #5 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 2.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 855 | #234 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 622 | #421 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 608 | — |
| CH Switzerland | FSO — Vornamen der Neugeborenen und Wohnbevölkerung | 2024 | 78 | #90 |
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 706 thousand people named Alessandro in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alessandro.
- 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.
- 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….
- Is Alessandro a male or female name?
- Alessandro is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Brazil (IBGE), United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Spain (INE) and Italy (ISTAT, 2024), among others.
- How do you pronounce Alessandro?
- It depends on the language: in Italian /a.lesˈsan.dro/ (Wiktionary); in Portuguese /a.leˈsɐ̃.dɾo/ (Wiktionary).
- 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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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/alessandroThe 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, “Alessandro” — the 318th most common given name in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.