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Alexandr

Boy · Slavic

Alexandr is a boys' name of Slavic origin. In 2025 it ranked 6,799th for boys in the US (12 babies).

What does Alexandr mean?

Slavic: spelling of Aleksandr

A transliteration of the Russian male given name Алекса́ндр (Aleksándr)

Meaning borrowed from Aleksandr. From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Is Alexandr a girl's or a boy's name?

Alexandr is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Alexandr in the UK?

No boys in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2012, with 10 boys.

Half of all the boys named Alexandr in the UK since 1996 were born between 2012 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.

1999Busiest: 10 in 20122022
Alexandr in the UK, year by year
YearBoysRank
20223#5,017
20218#2,619
20203#4,803
20193#4,913
20185#3,596
20175#3,608
20167#2,947
20155#3,527
20140–
20138#2,541
201210#2,230
20114#3,986
20103#4,865
20097#2,679
20081#5,936
20070–
20060–
20051#5,109
20040–
20030–
20020–
20010–
20000–
19991#3,925

How popular is Alexandr in the US?

Rank in 2025
#6,799among boys
Babies in 2025
12about 1 in 140,000 boys
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 12 boys in the US were named Alexandr, making it the 6,799th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 9,548th. Its busiest year was 2005, with 25 boys. It first appears in the records in 1987.

2025 had more boys named Alexandr than any year since 2017.

Half of all the boys named Alexandr in the US since 1880 were born between 1999 and 2014, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 56 boys in the US were given Alexandr or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,060, up from #6,799 for this spelling alone.

1987Busiest: 25 in 20052025
Alexandr in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202512#6,799
20247#9,888
20230–
202210#7,762
20219#8,161
20207#9,548
201910#7,638
20189#8,150
201714#6,056
201613#6,344
201517#5,285
201421#4,534
201316#5,400
201218#5,030
201120#4,657
201019#4,845
200914#6,091
200813#6,388
200718#4,994
200617#5,068
200525#3,706
200417#4,788
200315#5,030
200214#5,124
200114#5,135
20008#7,409
199913#5,029
199815#4,409
19978#6,612
199614#4,390
199512#4,785
199415#4,088
19938#6,221
199211#4,864
19918#5,934
19906#7,171
198915#3,612
19886#6,420
19875#6,945

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