Alejandrina
Feminine · “Defender of men”
Alejandrina is Alejandro carried two steps further: a feminine form, and then a diminutive ending laid on top of it. The most interesting letter in the name is the j in the middle. Spanish used to write that sound with an x, and the change of letter can be dated.
How old is the name Alejandrina?
Alejandrina first appears in US birth records in 1920 — 105 years ago. The typical Alejandrina alive today was born around 1988, making them about 37 years old. About 1,300 people named Alejandrina are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Alejandrina most popular?
Alejandrina peaked in 1979, reaching #2430 nationally. See the whole 1979 chart.
Where it comes from
From Alexandros to Alejandrina
The story of Alejandrina
Old Spanish wrote the name Alexandre, with an x standing for the sh sound, which is also why Don Quixote is spelled the way it is. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that sound moved back in the mouth to the modern Spanish j, and the spelling was eventually moved with it: Quixote became Quijote, Alexandre became Alejandro, and the x was retired from those words for good. Spanish kept something else from the Middle Ages too. The long poem about Alexander written in Castilian used a fourteen-syllable line, and that line is called the verso alejandrino to this day, so a meter in Spanish poetry carries the same man's name as the child does. Alejandrina reached American records with Mexican and Caribbean families.
Meaning
Defender of men
Greek alexein, to ward off or defend, and aner, andros, man in the sense of a fighting man rather than a human being in general. It is a warrior's name, and it was a title carried by one particular king before it was ordinary anywhere. The Spanish ending softens the sound without touching any of that; a diminutive in Spanish marks affection rather than size.
How the name formed
- Alexandros
- Alexandre
- Alejandro
- Alejandrina
Related forms: Alejandra · Alessandrina · Alexandrina · Alexandrine · Alexandrina
Pronouncing Alejandrina
ah-leh-hahn-DREE-nah
Five syllables in Spanish with the stress on the fourth. The j is made at the back of the mouth, close to the ch of Scottish loch; English speakers reliably substitute a plain h, which Spanish speakers accept without comment.
Nicknames for Alejandrina
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What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1920
- Most girls named
- 199441 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2430reached in 1979
- Change vs 2023
- −54.5%5 in 2024, from 11
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Alejandrina in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Alejandra in Spanish — related form
- Alessandrina in Italian — same name
- Alexandrina in Portuguese — same name
- Alexandrine in French — same name
- Alexandrina in English — same name
Alejandrinas among us
people named Alejandrina are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Alejandrina sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Fully at home in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and French, so it works on both sides of a bilingual family.
- Four short forms with completely different sounds, from Ale to Nina, so the child is not locked into one.
- Long and formal on paper without being invented; every element of it is centuries old.
- Five syllables is a great deal of name in an English-speaking classroom, and it will be shortened by other people if it is not shortened first.
- English speakers will spell it with an x on first hearing, because that is the form they know.
- The j will be said as an English j by anyone who has not met Spanish, which changes the name noticeably.
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- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,300 people named Alejandrina are estimated to be alive in the US today.
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- Alejandrina is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Alejandrina will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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