Meaning not yet researched.
Alejandro: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,842 in 2025. Its best rank was #88 in 2001.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #88 in 2001; #195 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Alejandro in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#195 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2001, at #88.
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Alejandro: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,842 boys in 2025. Peak: #88 in 2001 · most boys in one year: 4,557 (2001).
In 2025, 1,842 US boys were named Alejandro, making it the 195th most common boys’ name of the year, down 9 places from #186 in 2024. That is 151 fewer than the 1,993 boys named Alejandro in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #88, reached in 2001. That year also had the most boys given the name: 4,557. For comparison, it was #180 in 2015 and #642 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alejandro in 128 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1885 with 5 babies. In all, 147,470 US babies have been given the name, 0.6% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 43,271 babies named Alejandro.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 19,388 US boys were named Alejandro; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 2,208. In 2025 that was about 1 in 927 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Alejandro ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #76 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 3 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Alexander (740,668 babies since 1880), Alessandro (12,002 babies since 1880), Alexandre (5,389 babies since 1880) and Aleksander (4,166 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Andro, Alijandro and Alajandro are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Andro (59), Alijandro (10), Alajandro (7), Alejondro (6).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Alejandro in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 15 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 23 | #76 | #107 |
| Arizona | 98 | #79 | #105 |
| Texas | 471 | #84 | #81 |
| California | 361 | #111 | #98 |
| Nevada | 23 | #134 | #116 |
| Florida | 154 | #141 | #96 |
| Colorado | 38 | #181 | #176 |
| Illinois | 61 | #191 | #195 |
| Kansas | 19 | #205 | #334 |
| Oregon | 20 | #210 | #322 |
| Washington | 34 | #232 | #179 |
| Nebraska | 10 | #244 | #163 |
| Wisconsin | 24 | #245 | #271 |
| North Carolina | 50 | #247 | #266 |
| Utah | 19 | #265 | #258 |
| Iowa | 14 | #276 | #316 |
| Oklahoma | 17 | #282 | #230 |
| Maryland | 19 | #286 | #313 |
| Virginia | 29 | #289 | #305 |
| Massachusetts | 20 | #290 | #245 |
| Georgia | 42 | #293 | #276 |
| South Carolina | 18 | #298 | #295 |
| New Jersey | 28 | #306 | #177 |
| New York | 60 | #307 | #222 |
| Alabama | 14 | #375 | #384 |
| Tennessee | 19 | #410 | #477 |
| Michigan | 20 | #421 | #451 |
| Indiana | 16 | #432 | #344 |
| Idaho | 5 | #437 | #222 |
| Ohio | 24 | #439 | #477 |
| Pennsylvania | 23 | #442 | #418 |
| Arkansas | 7 | #445 | #305 |
| Missouri | 11 | #518 | #422 |
| Minnesota | 9 | #552 | #386 |
| Louisiana | 7 | #591 | #536 |
| Kentucky | 6 | #626 | #379 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 1,842 | #195 |
| 2024 | — | — | 1,993 | #186 |
| 2023 | — | — | 1,837 | #200 |
| 2022 | — | — | 1,966 | #194 |
| 2021 | — | — | 1,844 | #206 |
| 2020 | — | — | 1,792 | #212 |
| 2019 | — | — | 1,972 | #201 |
| 2018 | — | — | 1,902 | #208 |
| 2017 | — | — | 2,032 | #195 |
| 2016 | — | — | 2,208 | #181 |
| 2015 | — | — | 2,316 | #180 |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,671 | 2,602 | #158 |
| 2013 | — | — | 2,469 | #165 |
| 2012 | 5 | #16,995 | 2,729 | #148 |
| 2011 | 5 | #16,888 | 3,091 | #130 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,330 | 3,712 | #103 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,336 | 3,444 | #121 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,625 | 4,168 | #105 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,028 | 4,281 | #103 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,311 | 4,551 | #96 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,482 | 4,482 | #97 |
| 2004 | 14 | #7,844 | 4,451 | #99 |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,804 | 4,317 | #100 |
| 2002 | 19 | #5,905 | 4,356 | #92 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,578 | 4,557 | #88 |
| 2000 | 30 | #4,083 | 4,511 | #89 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,672 | 4,319 | #88 |
| 1998 | 27 | #4,145 | 4,044 | #95 |
| 1997 | 30 | #3,717 | 3,998 | #99 |
| 1996 | 31 | #3,571 | 3,676 | #107 |
| 1995 | 34 | #3,290 | 3,531 | #107 |
| 1994 | 37 | #3,100 | 3,469 | #105 |
| 1993 | 48 | #2,573 | 3,535 | #103 |
| 1992 | 62 | #2,156 | 3,176 | #113 |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,060 | 2,787 | #118 |
| 1990 | 38 | #2,958 | 2,643 | #125 |
| 1989 | 32 | #3,253 | 2,086 | #148 |
| 1988 | 26 | #3,586 | 1,607 | #176 |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,662 | 1,586 | #173 |
| 1986 | 24 | #3,555 | 1,633 | #165 |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,856 | 1,459 | #179 |
| 1984 | 19 | #3,995 | 1,320 | #190 |
| 1983 | 25 | #3,245 | 1,334 | #187 |
| 1982 | 24 | #3,419 | 1,499 | #173 |
| 1981 | 11 | #5,893 | 1,488 | #168 |
| 1980 | 24 | #3,413 | 1,304 | #187 |
| 1979 | 14 | #4,847 | 1,241 | #197 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,572 | 1,107 | #202 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,354 | 1,082 | #206 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,620 | 1,076 | #203 |
| 1975 | 6 | #7,999 | 1,025 | #210 |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,780 | 870 | #237 |
| 1973 | 11 | #4,876 | 763 | #257 |
| 1972 | — | — | 702 | #276 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,013 | 681 | #292 |
| 1970 | — | — | 587 | #326 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,485 | 516 | #348 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,029 | 421 | #379 |
| 1967 | — | — | 310 | #431 |
| 1966 | — | — | 313 | #431 |
| 1965 | — | — | 282 | #464 |
| 1964 | — | — | 300 | #458 |
| 1963 | — | — | 262 | #494 |
| 1962 | — | — | 247 | #505 |
| 1961 | — | — | 247 | #506 |
| 1960 | — | — | 201 | #557 |
| 1959 | — | — | 211 | #539 |
| 1958 | — | — | 205 | #537 |
| 1957 | — | — | 211 | #534 |
| 1956 | — | — | 178 | #567 |
| 1955 | — | — | 154 | #592 |
| 1954 | — | — | 161 | #582 |
| 1953 | — | — | 152 | #583 |
| 1952 | — | — | 175 | #529 |
| 1951 | — | — | 149 | #562 |
| 1950 | — | — | 117 | #642 |
| 1949 | — | — | 117 | #633 |
| 1948 | — | — | 134 | #576 |
| 1947 | — | — | 116 | #638 |
| 1946 | — | — | 105 | #626 |
| 1945 | — | — | 86 | #650 |
| 1944 | — | — | 94 | #633 |
| 1943 | — | — | 69 | #787 |
| 1942 | — | — | 60 | #839 |
| 1941 | — | — | 72 | #729 |
| 1940 | — | — | 85 | #653 |
| 1939 | — | — | 64 | #754 |
| 1938 | — | — | 61 | #785 |
| 1937 | — | — | 74 | #697 |
| 1936 | — | — | 62 | #774 |
| 1935 | — | — | 81 | #662 |
| 1934 | — | — | 78 | #691 |
| 1933 | — | — | 81 | #642 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,427 | 83 | #669 |
| 1931 | — | — | 89 | #629 |
| 1930 | — | — | 102 | #605 |
| 1929 | — | — | 83 | #675 |
| 1928 | — | — | 79 | #714 |
| 1927 | — | — | 88 | #690 |
| 1926 | — | — | 67 | #803 |
| 1925 | — | — | 87 | #690 |
| 1924 | — | — | 58 | #917 |
| 1923 | — | — | 70 | #791 |
| 1922 | — | — | 63 | #863 |
| 1921 | — | — | 70 | #814 |
| 1920 | — | — | 67 | #817 |
| 1919 | — | — | 41 | #1,063 |
| 1918 | — | — | 37 | #1,125 |
| 1917 | — | — | 42 | #1,003 |
| 1916 | — | — | 31 | #1,176 |
| 1915 | — | — | 24 | #1,372 |
| 1914 | — | — | 23 | #1,221 |
| 1913 | — | — | 14 | #1,441 |
| 1912 | — | — | 9 | #1,749 |
| 1910 | — | — | 7 | #1,316 |
| 1909 | — | — | 11 | #896 |
| 1908 | — | — | 8 | #1,023 |
| 1907 | — | — | 7 | #1,094 |
| 1905 | — | — | 7 | #1,003 |
| 1904 | — | — | 8 | #877 |
| 1903 | — | — | 8 | #847 |
| 1902 | — | — | 6 | #1,014 |
| 1901 | — | — | 5 | #1,060 |
| 1900 | — | — | 6 | #1,166 |
| 1898 | — | — | 5 | #1,123 |
| 1890 | — | — | 5 | #997 |
| 1887 | — | — | 5 | #929 |
| 1885 | — | — | 5 | #940 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).