Meaning not yet researched.
Alessandro: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 608 in 2025. Its best rank was #497 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Alessandro in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#497 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Alessandro: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 608 boys in 2025. Peak: #497 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 608 (2025).
In 2025, 608 US boys were named Alessandro, making it the 497th most common boys’ name of the year, up 57 places from #554 in 2024. That is 69 more than the 539 boys named Alessandro in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #497, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 608. For comparison, it was #683 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alessandro in 73 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1933 with 5 babies. In all, 12,002 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 3,910 babies named Alessandro.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,805 US boys were named Alessandro; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 608. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,809 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Alessandro ranked highest in Nevada in 2025, at #187 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), Alexandre (5,389 babies since 1880) and Aleksander (4,166 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Alesandro, Alexsandro and Alezandro 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: Alesandro (379), Alexsandro (306), Alezandro (16).
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 Alessandro 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 29 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nevada | 16 | #187 | #361 |
| California | 138 | #268 | #481 |
| Florida | 66 | #290 | #397 |
| Texas | 117 | #316 | #531 |
| Colorado | 19 | #329 | #636 |
| Illinois | 29 | #363 | #562 |
| New Jersey | 19 | #413 | #479 |
| Arizona | 16 | #444 | #561 |
| Washington | 14 | #502 | #540 |
| Massachusetts | 9 | #507 | #627 |
| Maryland | 9 | #520 | #638 |
| Kansas | 6 | #525 | — |
| Virginia | 14 | #526 | #888 |
| New York | 27 | #572 | #485 |
| Georgia | 14 | #674 | #1,100 |
| Utah | 5 | #705 | — |
| Michigan | 9 | #770 | — |
| North Carolina | 11 | #777 | #893 |
| Tennessee | 7 | #844 | — |
| Indiana | 6 | #849 | — |
| Ohio | 8 | #941 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,236 | #932 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 608 | #497 |
| 2024 | — | — | 539 | #554 |
| 2023 | — | — | 555 | #533 |
| 2022 | — | — | 547 | #541 |
| 2021 | — | — | 455 | #610 |
| 2020 | — | — | 429 | #626 |
| 2019 | — | — | 449 | #608 |
| 2018 | — | — | 454 | #603 |
| 2017 | — | — | 401 | #646 |
| 2016 | — | — | 368 | #681 |
| 2015 | — | — | 370 | #683 |
| 2014 | — | — | 422 | #626 |
| 2013 | — | — | 389 | #634 |
| 2012 | — | — | 342 | #692 |
| 2011 | — | — | 364 | #643 |
| 2010 | — | — | 351 | #677 |
| 2009 | — | — | 379 | #654 |
| 2008 | — | — | 396 | #623 |
| 2007 | — | — | 326 | #710 |
| 2006 | — | — | 385 | #616 |
| 2005 | — | — | 315 | #669 |
| 2004 | — | — | 299 | #676 |
| 2003 | — | — | 263 | #711 |
| 2002 | — | — | 248 | #714 |
| 2001 | — | — | 159 | #969 |
| 2000 | — | — | 162 | #939 |
| 1999 | — | — | 169 | #889 |
| 1998 | — | — | 163 | #893 |
| 1997 | — | — | 108 | #1,143 |
| 1996 | — | — | 113 | #1,071 |
| 1995 | — | — | 90 | #1,221 |
| 1994 | — | — | 110 | #1,063 |
| 1993 | — | — | 86 | #1,216 |
| 1992 | — | — | 88 | #1,187 |
| 1991 | — | — | 80 | #1,245 |
| 1990 | — | — | 74 | #1,287 |
| 1989 | — | — | 88 | #1,130 |
| 1988 | — | — | 62 | #1,308 |
| 1987 | — | — | 55 | #1,337 |
| 1986 | — | — | 54 | #1,334 |
| 1985 | — | — | 51 | #1,354 |
| 1984 | — | — | 45 | #1,422 |
| 1983 | — | — | 38 | #1,562 |
| 1982 | — | — | 29 | #1,891 |
| 1981 | — | — | 35 | #1,662 |
| 1980 | — | — | 35 | #1,656 |
| 1979 | — | — | 34 | #1,670 |
| 1978 | — | — | 29 | #1,794 |
| 1977 | — | — | 31 | #1,707 |
| 1976 | — | — | 28 | #1,782 |
| 1975 | — | — | 27 | #1,787 |
| 1974 | — | — | 26 | #1,790 |
| 1973 | — | — | 27 | #1,697 |
| 1972 | — | — | 21 | #1,967 |
| 1971 | — | — | 26 | #1,745 |
| 1970 | — | — | 24 | #1,797 |
| 1969 | — | — | 15 | #2,217 |
| 1968 | — | — | 19 | #1,837 |
| 1967 | — | — | 16 | #1,974 |
| 1966 | — | — | 16 | #1,965 |
| 1965 | — | — | 17 | #1,918 |
| 1964 | — | — | 9 | #2,857 |
| 1963 | — | — | 12 | #2,417 |
| 1962 | — | — | 14 | #2,186 |
| 1961 | — | — | 8 | #3,099 |
| 1960 | — | — | 7 | #3,344 |
| 1959 | — | — | 7 | #3,292 |
| 1958 | — | — | 12 | #2,375 |
| 1957 | — | — | 7 | #3,261 |
| 1954 | — | — | 6 | #3,457 |
| 1953 | — | — | 6 | #3,429 |
| 1948 | — | — | 5 | #3,682 |
| 1933 | — | — | 5 | #3,652 |
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).