Alexandre
Masculine · “defender of men”
Alexandre is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 5,244 boys against 145 girls since 1880.
Alexandre is the French and Portuguese of Alexander — defender of men — a name attested in Bronze Age Greek four hundred years before Homer.
How old is the name Alexandre?
Alexandre first appears in US birth records in 1915 — 110 years ago. The typical Alexandre alive today was born around 2002, making them about 23 years old. About 5,100 people named Alexandre are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Alexandre most popular?
Alexandre peaked in 1993, reaching #893 nationally. Today it ranks #2145, 1,252 places below that high. See the whole 1993 chart.
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Where it comes from
From alexein aner to Alexandre
The story of Alexandre
Alexandros appears on Mycenaean clay tablets and Homer uses it as a second name for Paris of Troy. Alexander the Great carried it across Asia, which is why forms exist from Scotland to India. Alexandre Dumas wrote The Three Musketeers. The name appears in American records in current use.
Meaning
defender of men
From the Greek alexein, 'to defend', and aner, andros, 'man'. The name appears in Linear B tablets as Alexandros, making it among the oldest continuously used names in Europe. Alexandre is the standard French and Portuguese spelling. The Greek is documented.
How the name formed
- alexein aner
- Alexandros
- Alexandre
Related forms: Alexandre · Alexandre · Alexander
Pronouncing Alexandre
a-lek-SAHNDR
Three syllables, stress on the third. The final re is barely voiced in French.
Nicknames for Alexandre
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
- 1915
- Most boys named
- 2003173 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #893reached in 1993
- Change vs 2024
- −5.6%67 in 2025, from 71
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.
Alexandre in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Alexandre in French — same name
- Alexandre in Portuguese — same name
- Alexander in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, New York, Florida. INSEE rounds every published count to the nearest five for statistical confidentiality; the ranks are calculated from the exact figures. International figures from INSEE. Sources
Alexandres among us
people named Alexandre are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 25,494 born in 2025 was named Alexandre
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Claudio test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Alexandre's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Claudio climbed just as high around 1967, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Claudio's path sketches the road Alexandre is walking now.
Alexandre sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Alexandre is headed
Alexandre should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Alexandre beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Alexandre in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- That the name is attested in Bronze Age Linear B is a first-rate fact.
- Alex is available as a short form with an enormous record.
- It is standard in French, Portuguese and Catalan without change.
- The final consonant cluster is difficult for English speakers.
- Alexander is what English speakers will substitute.
- It reads as specifically French or Brazilian.
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Masculine · #2145 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Alexandres are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 5,100 people named Alexandre are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Alexandre in 2025?
- Alexandre ranks #2145 among US boy names in 2025, with 67 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Alexandre?
- About 1 in every 25,494 US boys born in 2025 was named Alexandre — 67 in all.
- Will my child share the name Alexandre with classmates?
- Alexandre will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Alexandre
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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