Meaning not yet researched.
Aleksandr: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 44 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,992 in 2016.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,992 in 2016; #2,837 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Aleksandr in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,837 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2016, at #1,992.
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Aleksandr: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 44 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,992 in 2016 · most boys in one year: 72 (2016).
In 2025, 44 US boys were named Aleksandr, making it the 2,837th most common boys’ name of the year, down 393 places from #2,444 in 2024. That is 12 fewer than the 56 boys named Aleksandr in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,992, reached in 2016. That year also had the most boys given the name: 72. For comparison, it was #2,429 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Aleksandr in 51 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1971 with 5 babies. In all, 1,675 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 571 babies named Aleksandr.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 500 US boys were named Aleksandr; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 72. In 2025 that was about 1 in 38,820 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Alexander (740,668 babies since 1880), Alexandre (5,389 babies since 1880), Aleksander (4,166 babies since 1880) and Alexandr (794 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Alekzandr are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Alek and Alex.
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: Alekzandr (22).
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.
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 44 | #2,837 |
| 2024 | — | — | 56 | #2,444 |
| 2023 | — | — | 47 | #2,737 |
| 2022 | — | — | 39 | #3,101 |
| 2021 | — | — | 44 | #2,820 |
| 2020 | — | — | 39 | #2,981 |
| 2019 | — | — | 44 | #2,809 |
| 2018 | — | — | 51 | #2,508 |
| 2017 | — | — | 64 | #2,131 |
| 2016 | — | — | 72 | #1,992 |
| 2015 | — | — | 52 | #2,429 |
| 2014 | — | — | 61 | #2,205 |
| 2013 | — | — | 55 | #2,299 |
| 2012 | — | — | 50 | #2,493 |
| 2011 | — | — | 60 | #2,173 |
| 2010 | — | — | 62 | #2,145 |
| 2009 | — | — | 44 | #2,753 |
| 2008 | — | — | 48 | #2,586 |
| 2007 | — | — | 42 | #2,814 |
| 2006 | — | — | 37 | #2,983 |
| 2005 | — | — | 41 | #2,657 |
| 2004 | — | — | 33 | #3,017 |
| 2003 | — | — | 29 | #3,191 |
| 2002 | — | — | 29 | #3,098 |
| 2001 | — | — | 52 | #2,029 |
| 2000 | — | — | 31 | #2,868 |
| 1999 | — | — | 37 | #2,402 |
| 1998 | — | — | 47 | #2,012 |
| 1997 | — | — | 40 | #2,165 |
| 1996 | — | — | 29 | #2,593 |
| 1995 | — | — | 39 | #2,104 |
| 1994 | — | — | 36 | #2,221 |
| 1993 | — | — | 22 | #3,047 |
| 1992 | — | — | 30 | #2,412 |
| 1991 | — | — | 25 | #2,684 |
| 1990 | — | — | 28 | #2,433 |
| 1989 | — | — | 12 | #4,276 |
| 1988 | — | — | 10 | #4,457 |
| 1987 | — | — | 9 | #4,584 |
| 1986 | — | — | 10 | #4,139 |
| 1985 | — | — | 8 | #4,707 |
| 1984 | — | — | 6 | #5,582 |
| 1983 | — | — | 7 | #4,929 |
| 1982 | — | — | 7 | #5,023 |
| 1980 | — | — | 9 | #4,147 |
| 1979 | — | — | 7 | #4,859 |
| 1978 | — | — | 5 | #5,798 |
| 1976 | — | — | 6 | #4,948 |
| 1975 | — | — | 6 | #4,812 |
| 1974 | — | — | 9 | #3,563 |
| 1971 | — | — | 5 | #4,925 |
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).