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Alexandrya

Gender
Girl
Say it
al-ig-ZAN-dree-uh
Origin
Greek

Alexandrya is a girls' name of Greek origin, meaning “defender of men”. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

What does Alexandrya mean?

Greek: variant of Alexandria

“defender of men”

Respelling of Alexandria, the Egyptian city founded by Alexander the Great.

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

Alexandrya is a girls' name.

How popular is Alexandrya in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1999, with 23 girls. It first appears in the records in 1989.

Half of all the girls named Alexandrya in the US since 1880 were born between 1996 and 2007, the years shaded on the chart below.

1989Busiest: 23 in 19992019
Alexandrya in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20195#15,532
20188#11,422
20177#12,709
20166#14,326
20155#16,413
20146#14,552
20138#11,964
20128#12,193
20117#13,339
201011#9,786
200911#9,971
20089#11,594
200712#9,535
200612#9,282
200520#5,994
200412#8,711
200311#9,043
200217#6,386
200117#6,317
200023#4,976
199923#4,713
199815#6,355
199718#5,413
199617#5,526
199512#7,036
199417#5,440
199316#5,667
199217#5,477
199111#7,423
19907#10,187
19896#10,841

Nicknames for Alexandrya

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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, “Alexandrya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/alexandrya, updated 20 October 2026.