In 2025, 47 US girls were named Aleksandra, making it the 3,297th most common girls’ name of the year, up 40 places from #3,337 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 47 girls named Aleksandra in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,736, reached in 2007. The most girls given the name in a single year was 126, in 2008. For comparison, it was #1,839 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Aleksandra in 57 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1965 with 8 babies. In all, 3,110 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,004 babies named Aleksandra.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 629 US girls were named Aleksandra; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 90. In 2025 that was about 1 in 34,197 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Alexandra (246,320 babies since 1880), Alejandra (54,545 babies since 1880), Alessandra (24,836 babies since 1880) and Alexsandra (2,422 babies since 1880).
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Latvian, Polish, Serbo-Croatian and Slovene. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.