Alixandria
Feminine · “city of Alexander”
Alixandria is the city name Alexandria spelled with an i, a long and stately name with the stress on its third syllable. The name belongs to Alexander's city in Egypt, to a Greek poet who made that city his subject, and to a Virginia town with a different story entirely.
How old is the name Alixandria?
Alixandria first appears in US birth records in 1985 — 40 years ago. The typical Alixandria alive today was born around 1998, making them about 27 years old. About 600 people named Alixandria are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Alixandria most popular?
Alixandria peaked in 1991, reaching #3207 nationally. See the whole 1991 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Alexandros to Alixandria
The story of Alixandria
Alexander founded Alexandria in Egypt, and in the twentieth century it found its poet in Constantine Cavafy, a clerk in the city's irrigation office who wrote The City and The God Abandons Antony and made Alexandria the setting of modern Greek poetry. The Alexandria on the Potomac, where George Washington kept a town house and went to church, was named not for the Macedonian king but for the Alexanders, a Scottish family who had owned the land. Alixandria takes the city's name and spells it with an i.
Meaning
city of Alexander, defender of men
From Alexandria, the city named for Alexander the Great, whose Greek name Alexandros means defender of men.
How the name formed
- Alexandros
- Alexandria
- Alixandria
Related forms: Alexandria · Alexandreia · Alexandra
Pronouncing Alixandria
al-ig-ZAN-dree-uh
Stress on the third syllable, said like Alexandria.
Nicknames for Alixandria
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
- 1985
- Most girls named
- 199134 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3207reached in 1991
- Change vs 2016
- −18.2%9 in 2017, 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.
Alixandria in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Alexandria in English — spelling variant
- Alexandreia in Greek — related form
- Alexandra in English — related form
Alixandrias among us
people named Alixandria 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
Alixandria 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
- It connects to a famous city and a clear Greek meaning.
- Alix, Andria and Lexi give several short forms.
- It is rare as a spelling.
- People will write Alexandria, and the i will need spelling out.
- It is long, and forms and screens will sometimes cut it short.
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Frequently asked
- How many Alixandrias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Alixandria are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Alixandria in 2025?
- Alixandria is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Alixandria will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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