Meaning not yet researched.
Alexandr: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 12 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,622 in 1989.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3,622 in 1989; #6,825 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Alexandr in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,825 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1989, at #3,622.
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Alexandr: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 12 boys in 2025. Peak: #3,622 in 1989 · most boys in one year: 25 (2005).
In 2025, 12 US boys were named Alexandr, making it the 6,825th most common boys’ name of the year, up 3,119 places from #9,944 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 7 boys named Alexandr in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,622, reached in 1989. The most boys given the name in a single year was 25, in 2005. For comparison, it was #5,298 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Alexandr in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #678, reached in 1989. That year also had the most girls given the name: 301. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alexandr in 38 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1987 with 5 babies. In all, 794 US babies have been given the name, 38% of them girls and 62% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 327 babies named Alexandr.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 91 US boys were named Alexandr; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 14. In 2025 that was about 1 in 142,340 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Alexander (740,668 babies since 1880), Alex (295,991 babies since 1880), Alejandro (147,470 babies since 1880) and Alessandro (12,002 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 Alexandr in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 12 | #6,825 |
| 2024 | — | — | 7 | #9,944 |
| 2022 | — | — | 10 | #7,787 |
| 2021 | — | — | 9 | #8,199 |
| 2020 | — | — | 7 | #9,610 |
| 2019 | — | — | 10 | #7,669 |
| 2018 | — | — | 9 | #8,183 |
| 2017 | — | — | 14 | #6,069 |
| 2016 | — | — | 13 | #6,365 |
| 2015 | — | — | 17 | #5,298 |
| 2014 | — | — | 21 | #4,544 |
| 2013 | — | — | 16 | #5,411 |
| 2012 | — | — | 18 | #5,041 |
| 2011 | — | — | 20 | #4,664 |
| 2010 | — | — | 19 | #4,852 |
| 2009 | — | — | 14 | #6,106 |
| 2008 | — | — | 13 | #6,407 |
| 2007 | — | — | 18 | #5,001 |
| 2006 | — | — | 17 | #5,080 |
| 2005 | — | — | 25 | #3,714 |
| 2004 | — | — | 17 | #4,798 |
| 2003 | — | — | 15 | #5,041 |
| 2002 | — | — | 14 | #5,140 |
| 2001 | — | — | 14 | #5,149 |
| 2000 | — | — | 8 | #7,449 |
| 1999 | — | — | 13 | #5,048 |
| 1998 | — | — | 15 | #4,417 |
| 1997 | — | — | 8 | #6,634 |
| 1996 | — | — | 14 | #4,401 |
| 1995 | — | — | 12 | #4,798 |
| 1994 | — | — | 15 | #4,100 |
| 1993 | — | — | 8 | #6,242 |
| 1992 | — | — | 11 | #4,881 |
| 1991 | — | — | 8 | #5,955 |
| 1990 | — | — | 6 | #7,201 |
| 1989 | 301 | #678 | 15 | #3,622 |
| 1988 | — | — | 6 | #6,445 |
| 1987 | — | — | 5 | #6,979 |
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).