Alessandria
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ah-leh-SAHN-dree-ah
- Origin
- Greek
- US rank, 2025
- #8,360 for girls
Alessandria is a girls' name of Greek origin, meaning “defender of men”. In 2025 it ranked 8,360th for girls in the US (12 babies).
What does Alessandria mean?
Greek: Italian form of Alexandria
“defender of men”
Italian form of Alexandria; also the name of a city in Piedmont, northern Italy.
Is Alessandria a girl's or a boy's name?
Alessandria is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Alessandria in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 8,360th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 12 about 1 in 130,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 12 girls in the US were named Alessandria, making it the 8,360th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 9,541st. Its busiest year was 2017, with 13 girls. It first appears in the records in 1989.
2025 had more girls named Alessandria than any year since 2017.
Half of all the girls named Alessandria in the US since 1880 were born between 2001 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
Alessandria in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,360 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,188 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,050 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,541 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,106 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,540 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,295 |
| 2016 | 12 | #8,872 |
| 2015 | 8 | #11,830 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,063 |
| 2013 | 5 | #16,542 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,193 |
| 2011 | 5 | #16,756 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,240 |
| 2009 | 11 | #9,971 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 8 | #12,671 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,147 |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,495 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,092 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,344 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,024 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 7 | #10,831 |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,380 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,116 |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,435 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,471 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,139 |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 6 | #10,841 |
Nicknames for Alessandria
- Sandra 11 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Alessandria
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Anastasia, Alessia, Aria, Sophia, Amelia, Analia, Ariana, Alivia, Alora, Analucia, Avianna, Amalia
Names related to Alessandria
Alessandra, Alyssandra, Alisandra, Alesandra, Alissandra, Alysandra, Allessandra
More Greek names
Luca, Theodore, George, Theo, Lucas, Sofia, Alexander, Sebastian, Penelope, Phoebe, Margot, Luke, Chloe, Sophie, Zoe, Iris
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, “Alessandria: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/alessandria, updated 20 October 2026.