Meaning not yet researched.
Aleksander: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 126 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,103 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,103 in 2009; #1,425 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Aleksander in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,425 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #1,103.
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Aleksander: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 126 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,103 in 2009 · most boys in one year: 171 (2014).
In 2025, 126 US boys were named Aleksander, making it the 1,425th most common boys’ name of the year, up 248 places from #1,673 in 2024. That is 26 more than the 100 boys named Aleksander in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,103, reached in 2009. The most boys given the name in a single year was 171, in 2014. For comparison, it was #1,254 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Aleksander in 55 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1918 with 6 babies. In all, 4,166 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,480 babies named Aleksander.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,371 US boys were named Aleksander; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 160. In 2025 that was about 1 in 13,556 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Aleksander ranked highest in Illinois in 2025, at #632 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Alexander (740,668 babies since 1880), Alejandro (147,470 babies since 1880), Alessandro (12,002 babies since 1880) and Alexandre (5,389 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Aleksander 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 42 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 14 | #632 | #639 |
| New Jersey | 8 | #771 | — |
| Indiana | 5 | #951 | — |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,114 | #905 |
| New York | 10 | #1,124 | #950 |
| Florida | 10 | #1,192 | #1,278 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,235 | — |
| Texas | 11 | #1,558 | #1,103 |
| California | 9 | #1,695 | #962 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 126 | #1,425 |
| 2024 | — | — | 100 | #1,673 |
| 2023 | — | — | 125 | #1,449 |
| 2022 | — | — | 143 | #1,315 |
| 2021 | — | — | 140 | #1,325 |
| 2020 | — | — | 133 | #1,343 |
| 2019 | — | — | 145 | #1,283 |
| 2018 | — | — | 160 | #1,188 |
| 2017 | — | — | 155 | #1,195 |
| 2016 | — | — | 144 | #1,266 |
| 2015 | — | — | 144 | #1,254 |
| 2014 | — | — | 171 | #1,119 |
| 2013 | — | — | 136 | #1,278 |
| 2012 | — | — | 152 | #1,188 |
| 2011 | — | — | 142 | #1,229 |
| 2010 | — | — | 131 | #1,309 |
| 2009 | — | — | 167 | #1,103 |
| 2008 | — | — | 138 | #1,263 |
| 2007 | — | — | 134 | #1,299 |
| 2006 | — | — | 123 | #1,330 |
| 2005 | — | — | 102 | #1,442 |
| 2004 | — | — | 115 | #1,293 |
| 2003 | — | — | 76 | #1,646 |
| 2002 | — | — | 104 | #1,295 |
| 2001 | — | — | 78 | #1,543 |
| 2000 | — | — | 78 | #1,542 |
| 1999 | — | — | 81 | #1,436 |
| 1998 | — | — | 66 | #1,585 |
| 1997 | — | — | 72 | #1,480 |
| 1996 | — | — | 76 | #1,387 |
| 1995 | — | — | 54 | #1,666 |
| 1994 | — | — | 54 | #1,665 |
| 1993 | — | — | 46 | #1,826 |
| 1992 | — | — | 61 | #1,490 |
| 1991 | — | — | 41 | #1,895 |
| 1990 | — | — | 33 | #2,171 |
| 1989 | — | — | 26 | #2,472 |
| 1988 | — | — | 23 | #2,513 |
| 1987 | — | — | 20 | #2,641 |
| 1986 | — | — | 21 | #2,512 |
| 1985 | — | — | 17 | #2,832 |
| 1984 | — | — | 10 | #3,930 |
| 1983 | — | — | 6 | #5,501 |
| 1982 | — | — | 14 | #3,109 |
| 1981 | — | — | 10 | #3,863 |
| 1980 | — | — | 11 | #3,622 |
| 1979 | — | — | 7 | #4,858 |
| 1978 | — | — | 13 | #3,072 |
| 1977 | — | — | 7 | #4,596 |
| 1975 | — | — | 6 | #4,811 |
| 1974 | — | — | 7 | #4,198 |
| 1973 | — | — | 6 | #4,519 |
| 1969 | — | — | 5 | #4,417 |
| 1968 | — | — | 5 | #4,147 |
| 1918 | — | — | 6 | #3,738 |
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).