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Alexxander

Boy · al-ig-ZAN-der · Greek

Alexxander is a boys' name of Greek origin, meaning “defender of men”. In 2025 it ranked 10,690th for boys in the US (6 babies).

What does Alexxander mean?

Greek: variant spelling of Alexander

“defender of men”

A doubled-x spelling of Alexander, the name of Alexander the Great, king of Macedon.

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al-ig-ZAN-der

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

Alexxander is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Alexxander in the US?

Rank in 2025
#10,690among boys
Babies in 2025
6about 1 in 280,000 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, 6 boys in the US were named Alexxander, making it the 10,690th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 9,548th. Its busiest year was 2006, with 19 boys. It first appears in the records in 1992.

Half of all the boys named Alexxander in the US since 1880 were born between 2004 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 87 boys in the US were given Alexxander or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,611, up from #10,690 for this spelling alone.

1992Busiest: 19 in 20062025
Alexxander in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
20256#10,690
20247#9,888
20230–
202213#6,473
20215#12,141
20207#9,548
20195#12,138
20187#9,664
20179#8,136
201613#6,344
201511#7,061
201411#7,043
20136#10,722
201210#7,553
201111#7,002
201010#7,585
200910#7,687
200814#6,065
20079#8,169
200619#4,671
200511#6,628
200410#6,970
200312#5,870
200210#6,515
20010–
20008#7,409
199912#5,311
19980–
19975#9,259
199610#5,528
19950–
19940–
19935#8,693
19925#8,426

Nicknames for Alexxander

Names like Alexxander

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Alexxander

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