Meaning not yet researched.
Alexander: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 7,230 in 2025. Its best rank was #4 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #4 in 2009; #30 in 2025. About 99.8% of babies named Alexander in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#30 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #4.
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Alexander: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 7,230 boys in 2025. Peak: #4 in 2009 · most boys in one year: 20,530 (1993).
In 2025, 7,230 US boys were named Alexander, making it the 30th most common boys’ name of the year, down 3 places from #27 in 2024. That is 317 fewer than the 7,547 boys named Alexander in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #4, reached in 2009. The most boys given the name in a single year was 20,530, in 1993. For comparison, it was #8 in 2015 and #189 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alexander in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 211 babies with the name. In all, 740,668 US babies have been given the name, 0.6% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 185,413 babies named Alexander.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 100,605 US boys were named Alexander; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 13,446. In 2025 that was about 1 in 236 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Alexander ranked highest in California in 2025, at #16 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 50 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Alex (295,991 babies since 1880), Alejandro (147,470 babies since 1880), Sandy (79,530 babies since 1880) and Xander (40,349 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Aleksandar, Alexandar and Alexandru are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Al, Alec, Alex and Sandy.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, German, Icelandic, Latin, Norwegian, Slovak and Swedish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Aleksandar (1,437), Alexandar (681), Alexandru (614), Aleks (474), Alixander (288), Xan (255), Alecsander (245), Alyxander (195), Alecxander (182), Alekxander (129), Oleksandr (87), Alixzander (55), and more.
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.
Alexander is listed as a nickname for Alexandria.
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 every state is listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,169 | #16 | #6 |
| New Jersey | 255 | #18 | #13 |
| Arizona | 193 | #19 | #3 |
| New York | 476 | #19 | #11 |
| Alaska | 21 | #21 | #9 |
| Florida | 526 | #21 | #7 |
| New Mexico | 43 | #22 | #9 |
| Illinois | 261 | #23 | #3 |
| Nevada | 70 | #23 | #3 |
| Texas | 856 | #27 | #8 |
| Virginia | 193 | #27 | #11 |
| Connecticut | 83 | #29 | #3 |
| Massachusetts | 151 | #30 | #20 |
| District of Columbia | 21 | #31 | #4 |
| Rhode Island | 22 | #31 | #5 |
| Hawaii | 20 | #32 | #13 |
| Washington | 161 | #32 | #8 |
| Maryland | 119 | #32 | #14 |
| Montana | 26 | #34 | #36 |
| Colorado | 126 | #35 | #4 |
| North Carolina | 226 | #38 | #14 |
| Kentucky | 94 | #40 | #33 |
| South Carolina | 94 | #40 | #27 |
| Georgia | 205 | #40 | #15 |
| Oregon | 72 | #41 | #10 |
| Nebraska | 42 | #43 | #13 |
| West Virginia | 30 | #48 | #29 |
| Michigan | 163 | #48 | #17 |
| Ohio | 207 | #50 | #17 |
| Wisconsin | 95 | #50 | #17 |
| Pennsylvania | 212 | #52 | #14 |
| Indiana | 127 | #52 | #10 |
| Idaho | 35 | #52 | #17 |
| Wyoming | 8 | #54 | #15 |
| Kansas | 55 | #55 | #13 |
| New Hampshire | 24 | #55 | #11 |
| Missouri | 98 | #57 | #18 |
| Iowa | 55 | #57 | #14 |
| Oklahoma | 64 | #58 | #19 |
| Louisiana | 64 | #64 | #34 |
| Maine | 17 | #66 | #12 |
| Tennessee | 123 | #68 | #19 |
| Alabama | 68 | #68 | #49 |
| Mississippi | 35 | #70 | #66 |
| North Dakota | 15 | #70 | #28 |
| Utah | 64 | #71 | #17 |
| Arkansas | 42 | #73 | #33 |
| Minnesota | 74 | #78 | #22 |
| Delaware | 12 | #83 | #8 |
| South Dakota | 13 | #94 | #51 |
| Vermont | 5 | #102 | #10 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,502 | 7,230 | #30 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,589 | 7,547 | #27 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,017 | 7,918 | #22 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,090 | 8,757 | #17 |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,756 | 9,425 | #13 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,295 | 10,268 | #10 |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,452 | 11,327 | #10 |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,025 | 12,110 | #11 |
| 2017 | 21 | #5,832 | 12,577 | #13 |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,674 | 13,446 | #11 |
| 2015 | 22 | #5,846 | 14,584 | #8 |
| 2014 | 33 | #4,358 | 15,449 | #8 |
| 2013 | 30 | #4,651 | 14,923 | #8 |
| 2012 | 28 | #4,970 | 15,259 | #9 |
| 2011 | 34 | #4,249 | 15,717 | #8 |
| 2010 | 44 | #3,572 | 16,769 | #6 |
| 2009 | 34 | #4,373 | 18,254 | #4 |
| 2008 | 44 | #3,648 | 18,711 | #6 |
| 2007 | 39 | #3,987 | 18,150 | #11 |
| 2006 | 52 | #3,178 | 18,235 | #12 |
| 2005 | 63 | #2,672 | 18,130 | #13 |
| 2004 | 115 | #1,685 | 17,925 | #15 |
| 2003 | 55 | #2,801 | 17,714 | #16 |
| 2002 | 84 | #2,047 | 17,718 | #15 |
| 2001 | 50 | #2,881 | 16,720 | #20 |
| 2000 | 64 | #2,403 | 17,290 | #20 |
| 1999 | 96 | #1,707 | 17,420 | #21 |
| 1998 | 82 | #1,867 | 17,466 | #22 |
| 1997 | 80 | #1,846 | 17,112 | #22 |
| 1996 | 92 | #1,657 | 17,964 | #22 |
| 1995 | 143 | #1,197 | 19,456 | #21 |
| 1994 | 164 | #1,095 | 20,101 | #22 |
| 1993 | 178 | #1,034 | 20,530 | #21 |
| 1992 | 209 | #929 | 20,069 | #23 |
| 1991 | 194 | #967 | 17,640 | #26 |
| 1990 | 223 | #873 | 16,194 | #28 |
| 1989 | 237 | #803 | 14,523 | #32 |
| 1988 | 331 | #602 | 13,341 | #34 |
| 1987 | 216 | #810 | 11,835 | #37 |
| 1986 | 207 | #809 | 10,609 | #41 |
| 1985 | 147 | #1,023 | 8,295 | #50 |
| 1984 | 119 | #1,144 | 6,492 | #54 |
| 1983 | 78 | #1,475 | 4,806 | #63 |
| 1982 | 83 | #1,446 | 4,593 | #65 |
| 1981 | 58 | #1,867 | 4,237 | #70 |
| 1980 | 52 | #2,014 | 3,279 | #91 |
| 1979 | 35 | #2,583 | 3,058 | #94 |
| 1978 | 36 | #2,431 | 2,738 | #98 |
| 1977 | 31 | #2,667 | 2,704 | #96 |
| 1976 | 33 | #2,439 | 2,443 | #107 |
| 1975 | 29 | #2,612 | 2,439 | #105 |
| 1974 | 40 | #2,067 | 2,354 | #112 |
| 1973 | 31 | #2,405 | 2,259 | #116 |
| 1972 | 16 | #3,718 | 2,116 | #129 |
| 1971 | 20 | #3,266 | 2,358 | #134 |
| 1970 | 17 | #3,580 | 2,463 | #137 |
| 1969 | 22 | #2,845 | 2,012 | #150 |
| 1968 | 16 | #3,318 | 1,773 | #154 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,303 | 1,454 | #178 |
| 1966 | 8 | #4,870 | 1,368 | #182 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,205 | 1,321 | #191 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,360 | 1,288 | #212 |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,601 | 1,308 | #214 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,541 | 1,218 | #221 |
| 1961 | 8 | #4,889 | 1,227 | #223 |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,515 | 1,199 | #232 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,304 | 1,166 | #233 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,197 | 1,188 | #220 |
| 1957 | 7 | #4,923 | 1,264 | #212 |
| 1956 | — | — | 1,235 | #211 |
| 1955 | 7 | #4,746 | 1,170 | #208 |
| 1954 | — | — | 1,236 | #200 |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,683 | 1,262 | #195 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,128 | 1,283 | #186 |
| 1951 | — | — | 1,212 | #190 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,325 | 1,164 | #189 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,253 | 1,185 | #180 |
| 1948 | — | — | 1,129 | #183 |
| 1947 | — | — | 1,081 | #190 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,668 | 964 | #188 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,566 | 891 | #178 |
| 1944 | — | — | 864 | #183 |
| 1943 | — | — | 924 | #178 |
| 1942 | — | — | 861 | #184 |
| 1941 | — | — | 818 | #184 |
| 1940 | — | — | 760 | #188 |
| 1939 | — | — | 723 | #186 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,457 | 666 | #193 |
| 1937 | — | — | 675 | #191 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,195 | 613 | #200 |
| 1935 | — | — | 702 | #186 |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,811 | 616 | #200 |
| 1933 | — | — | 659 | #187 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,576 | 774 | #178 |
| 1931 | — | — | 795 | #172 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,562 | 872 | #168 |
| 1929 | 10 | #2,926 | 985 | #156 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,441 | 1,048 | #152 |
| 1927 | 10 | #3,056 | 1,092 | #146 |
| 1926 | — | — | 1,150 | #146 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,434 | 1,224 | #137 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,086 | 1,381 | #129 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,385 | 1,293 | #129 |
| 1922 | — | — | 1,359 | #125 |
| 1921 | — | — | 1,533 | #116 |
| 1920 | 7 | #3,966 | 1,474 | #117 |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,829 | 1,422 | #113 |
| 1918 | 7 | #3,875 | 1,591 | #104 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,607 | 1,664 | #97 |
| 1916 | 9 | #3,039 | 1,584 | #99 |
| 1915 | 11 | #2,533 | 1,432 | #103 |
| 1914 | 7 | #2,884 | 1,169 | #98 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,200 | 937 | #98 |
| 1912 | — | — | 803 | #97 |
| 1911 | — | — | 426 | #94 |
| 1910 | — | — | 324 | #101 |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,216 | 255 | #107 |
| 1908 | — | — | 246 | #104 |
| 1907 | — | — | 279 | #92 |
| 1906 | — | — | 204 | #105 |
| 1905 | — | — | 210 | #103 |
| 1904 | — | — | 203 | #103 |
| 1903 | — | — | 195 | #100 |
| 1902 | — | — | 216 | #93 |
| 1901 | — | — | 162 | #102 |
| 1900 | — | — | 260 | #93 |
| 1899 | — | — | 178 | #97 |
| 1898 | — | — | 180 | #106 |
| 1897 | — | — | 172 | #103 |
| 1896 | — | — | 232 | #87 |
| 1895 | — | — | 199 | #97 |
| 1894 | — | — | 199 | #95 |
| 1893 | — | — | 218 | #83 |
| 1892 | — | — | 202 | #95 |
| 1891 | — | — | 172 | #95 |
| 1890 | — | — | 202 | #85 |
| 1889 | — | — | 185 | #93 |
| 1888 | — | — | 237 | #82 |
| 1887 | — | — | 180 | #87 |
| 1886 | — | — | 206 | #83 |
| 1885 | — | — | 205 | #78 |
| 1884 | — | — | 236 | #76 |
| 1883 | — | — | 187 | #80 |
| 1882 | — | — | 225 | #79 |
| 1881 | — | — | 209 | #71 |
| 1880 | — | — | 211 | #73 |
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).