Alejandro
Feminine · “Defender of men”
Alejandro is given to boys far more often — 146,624 boys against 846 girls since 1880. See Alejandro as a boy name
Alejandro is the Spanish form of a name that has been carried by conquerors, popes and about a million ordinary men, and one of the popes drew a line across a map and gave away half the world with it.
How old is the name Alejandro?
Alejandro first appears in US birth records in 1932 — 93 years ago. The typical Alejandro alive today was born around 1992, making them about 33 years old. About 800 people named Alejandro are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Alejandro most popular?
Alejandro peaked in 1992, reaching #2156 nationally. See the whole 1992 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Alexandros to Alejandro
The story of Alejandro
A pope of this name, elected after a conclave that nobody has ever described as clean, had several acknowledged children, promoted them energetically, and in the year after Columbus returned issued the bulls that divided the newly encountered world between Spain and Portugal along a line drawn in the Atlantic. Portugal negotiated the line further west the following year, which is the reason Brazil speaks Portuguese. A decision taken in Rome by a man who never crossed an ocean determined the languages of two continents, and it was signed with this name.
Meaning
Defender of men
The Greek elements are a verb about defending and the word for men, and the reading is not disputed. Spanish arrived at its form by a regular sound change and the meaning traveled unchanged.
How the name formed
- Alexandros
- Alexander
- Alejandro
Related forms: Alessandro · Alexandre · Aleksandr · Alexandros
Pronouncing Alejandro
ah-leh-HAN-droh
Four syllables with the stress on the third. The j is said in the throat, closer to an h than to anything English writes with a j.
Nicknames for Alejandro
Moderate
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
- 1932
- Most girls named
- 199262 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2156reached in 1992
- Change vs 2012
- +20.0%6 in 2014, from 5
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.
Alejandro in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Alessandro in Italian — same name
- Alexandre in Portuguese — same name
- Aleksandr in Russian — same name
- Alexandros in Greek — same name
Alejandros among us
people named Alejandro 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
Alejandro 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
- The meaning is settled, strong and understood across the world.
- It has native forms in every European language.
- It carries several short forms with very different registers.
- English speakers will say the j as an English j, which is not how it is said.
- It is long, and a short form will do most of the work.
- The spelling is recorded for both sexes, though the boys hold nearly all of it.
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Frequently asked
- How many Alejandros are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Alejandro are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Alejandro in 2025?
- Alejandro is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Alejandro with classmates?
- Alejandro will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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