Alexander
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Alexander is a Greek name meaning “defender of men” or “protector,” with countless forms worldwide, including Alessandro, Alejandro, Alistair, and Sasha. Alexander the Great made the name a byword for strength and leadership, and it has never been more popular; other famous bearers include Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The New Testament mentions four Alexanders, including the son of Simon of Cyrene, the man who carried Jesus’s cross. A fitting namesake is Alexander Hamilton, the orphan from the West Indies who became George Washington’s top aide and a founding father of the United States.
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Usage of Alexander in different languages / cultures
The list below was created by gathering names from various sources for different languages, and then matching Alexander against each list of names.
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Arabic
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Armenian
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Bengali
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Bulgarian
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Catalan
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Chinese
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Cornish
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Croatian
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Czech
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Danish
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Dothraki
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Dutch
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English
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Estonian
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Filipino
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Finnish
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French
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Georgian
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German
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Greek
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Hawaiian
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Hebrew
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Hindi
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Hungarian
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Icelandic
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Indonesian
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Irish
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Italian
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Japanese
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Khmer
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Klingon
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Korean
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Latin
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Macedonian
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Norwegian
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Persian
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Polish
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Portuguese
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Romanian
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Russian
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Scottish
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Serbian
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Slovak
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Slovenian
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Spanish
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Swahili
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Swedish
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Telugu
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Vietnamese
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Yiddish
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Note: In some cases it is possible for the check mark to be missing even if Alexander is used in a particular country, as almost no source name list has 100% coverage.
Alexander in official name statistics
United States
In 2025, 7,230 boys were named Alexander, making it the #30 boys' name in the US. Since 1880, 736,123 boys have been named Alexander, with the most (20,530) in 1993. It is most common, relative to births, in Alaska, Washington, D.C. and Wyoming.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880–2025. Names given to fewer than 5 babies in a year are not listed.
Other countries
Counts are babies born that year, or living people for "all ages" rows, as published by each country's statistics office or population register.
Alexander in other languages
- Aleksander Estonian, German, Polish, Slovenian
- Alex Dutch, English, Italian, Slovenian
- Aleksandar Croatian, Serbian, Slovenian
- Alexandre Catalan, French, Portuguese
- Aleks Polish, Slovenian
- Александар Macedonian, Serbian
- Alejandro Spanish
- Aleksandr Estonian
- Aleksandras Lithuanian
- Aleksandrs Latvian
- Aleksanteri Finnish
- Alessandro Italian
- Alexandr Czech
- Alexandru Romanian
- Sandro Italian
- Sandy Dutch
- Sándor Hungarian
- Xander Dutch
- Àlex Catalan
- Александр Russian
- Олександр Ukrainian
Alexander name days
- December 12 Sweden
Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Towns named Alexander
There are 46 towns and villages with Alexander in their name, in 12 countries.
🇺🇸 United States 31🇨🇦 Canada 4🇲🇽 Mexico 2🇧🇩 Bangladesh 1🇧🇸 Bahamas 1🇩🇪 Germany 1🇬🇩 Grenada 1🇮🇪 Ireland 1
| Name | Where | Population | |
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| Alexander City | Alabama, 🇺🇸 United States | 14,718 | Map |
| Alexander | Arkansas, 🇺🇸 United States | 2,848 | Map |
| Alexander Bay | Northern Cape, 🇿🇦 South Africa | 1,736 | Map |
| Alexander Mills | North Carolina, 🇺🇸 United States | 661 | Map |
| West Alexander | Pennsylvania, 🇺🇸 United States | 604 | Map |
| Alexander | Maine, 🇺🇸 United States | 534 | Map |
| Alexander | New York, 🇺🇸 United States | 497 | Map |
| Alexander | North Dakota, 🇺🇸 United States | 252 | Map |
| Alexander | Iowa, 🇺🇸 United States | 170 | Map |
| Alexander | Kansas, 🇺🇸 United States | 62 | Map |
Source: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Maps: OpenStreetMap.
Lakes named Alexander
There are 68 lakes and reservoirs with Alexander in their name, in 4 countries.
🇺🇸 United States 43🇨🇦 Canada 21🇦🇺 Australia 2🇳🇿 New Zealand 2
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| Alexander Flowage 2520 | Wisconsin, 🇺🇸 United States | Map |
| Alexander Lake | Newfoundland and Labrador, 🇨🇦 Canada | Map |
| Alexander Lake | Ontario, 🇨🇦 Canada | Map |
| Alexander Lake | Ontario, 🇨🇦 Canada | Map |
| Alexander Lake | Ontario, 🇨🇦 Canada | Map |
| Alexander Lake | Ontario, 🇨🇦 Canada | Map |
| Alexander Lake | Ontario, 🇨🇦 Canada | Map |
| Alexander Lake | Ontario, 🇨🇦 Canada | Map |
| Alexander Lake | Ontario, 🇨🇦 Canada | Map |
| Alexander Lake | Manitoba, 🇨🇦 Canada | Map |
Source: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Maps: OpenStreetMap.
Alexander songs
20 songs and musical works on Wikidata have Alexander in their title. The best known:
- Alexander's Ragtime Band – Irving Berlin (1911)
- Alexander Nevsky – Sergei Prokofiev (1939)
- Alexander's Feast – George Frideric Handel (1736)
- Alexander Hamilton – Lin-Manuel Miranda (2015)
- Alexander the Great – Iron Maiden (1986)
- Seven Songs on Poems by Alexander Blok – Dmitri Shostakovich (1967)
- Alexander – Rey Pila (2013)
- Alexander (2013)
- Alexander og Margido
- Goodbye Alexander, Goodbye Honey Boy (1918)
Song data: Wikidata (CC0), ordered by how widely each song is covered on Wikipedia.
Celebrities named Alexander
Based on celebrities listed on Wikipedia, filtered to only those with the first name Alexander.
Alexander Abt
Alexander Areshchenko
Alexander Armstrong
Alexander Balankin
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Fictional characters named Alexander
Characters from films and TV series, from Wikidata, ordered by how widely they are covered on Wikipedia.
Character data: Wikidata (CC0). Images: Wikimedia Commons; click an image for its author and licence.
Alexander as a pet name
FurryName has found 80 dogs named Alexander in public pet registers, making it the #2,400 dog name there. Most of them are registered in New York City (54), Surf Coast Shire (1), Playford (1). Alexander as a dog name →
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