Alekxander
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- al-ig-ZAHN-der
- Origin
- Greek
- US rank, 2025
- #9,710 for boys
Alekxander is a boys' name of Greek origin, meaning “defender of men”. In 2025 it ranked 9,710th for boys in the US (7 babies).
What does Alekxander mean?
Greek: spelling of Alexander
“defender of men”
Made famous by Alexander the Great (356-323 BC); Scotland had three medieval kings of this name.
Meaning borrowed from Alexander. More on Wiktionary.
Is Alekxander a girl's or a boy's name?
Alekxander is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Alekxander in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 9,710th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 240,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 7 boys in the US were named Alekxander, making it the 9,710th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,599th. Its busiest year was 2004, with 10 boys. It first appears in the records in 2004.
Half of all the boys named Alekxander in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 7,246 boys in the US were given Alekxander or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #37, up from #9,710 for this spelling alone.
- Alexander 7,230
- Alexsander 9
- Alekxander 7
Alekxander in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #9,710 |
| 2024 | 7 | #9,888 |
| 2023 | 8 | #8,916 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 6 | #10,794 |
| 2020 | 6 | #10,599 |
| 2019 | 6 | #10,797 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 6 | #10,770 |
| 2016 | 5 | #12,180 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 6 | #10,711 |
| 2013 | 8 | #8,784 |
| 2012 | 6 | #10,763 |
| 2011 | 8 | #8,760 |
| 2010 | 8 | #8,797 |
| 2009 | 6 | #10,989 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 10 | #7,586 |
| 2006 | 10 | #7,422 |
| 2005 | 6 | #10,144 |
| 2004 | 10 | #6,970 |
Nicknames for Alekxander
Names like Alekxander
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Xander, Ares, Ander, Archer, Luca, Alessandro, River, Atreus, Evander, Aziel, Karter, Alessio
Other spellings of Alekxander
Names related to Alekxander
Aleksander, Alexzander, Alexandre, Alexandro, Aleksandr, Alekzander, Aleksandar
More Greek names
Theodore, Sophia, George, Theo, Lucas, Sofia, Sebastian, Penelope, Phoebe, Margot, Luke, Chloe, Sophie, Zoe, Iris, Maisie
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Alekxander: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/alekxander, updated 20 October 2026.