# Aleksandar (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/aleksandar/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 1,437 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,437 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 340, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 43 | 2,750 |
| 2012 | 48 | 2,552 |
| 2013 | 39 | 2,896 |
| 2014 | 45 | 2,664 |
| 2015 | 47 | 2,601 |
| 2016 | 28 | 3,778 |
| 2017 | 40 | 2,956 |
| 2018 | 30 | 3,609 |
| 2019 | 36 | 3,203 |
| 2020 | 21 | 4,546 |
| 2021 | 26 | 4,015 |
| 2022 | 28 | 3,881 |
| 2023 | 24 | 4,346 |
| 2024 | 26 | 4,078 |
| 2025 | 21 | 4,711 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 10 | 2,039 |
| 2012 | 14 | 1,669 |
| 2013 | 11 | 1,920 |
| 2014 | 9 | 2,248 |
| 2015 | 15 | 1,586 |
| 2016 | 17 | 1,498 |
| 2017 | 20 | 1,289 |
| 2018 | 18 | 1,382 |
| 2019 | 11 | 1,986 |
| 2020 | 14 | 1,635 |
| 2021 | 14 | 1,688 |
| 2022 | 12 | 1,879 |
| 2023 | 12 | 1,906 |
| 2024 | 6 | 3,254 |
| 2025 | 9 | 2,440 |

## People named Aleksandar

- Aleksandar Vučić, 5th President of the Republic of Serbia
- Aleksandar Dragović, Austrian association football player
- Aleksandar Pavlović, German footballer (born 2004)
- Aleksandar Stamboliyski, Bulgarian prime minister (14 October 1919 – 9 June 1923)
- Aleksandar Hemon, Bosnian-American author, novelist, columnist
- Aleksandar Tonev, Bulgarian footballer
- Aleksandar Petrović, Croatian basketball coach and player
- Aleksandar Malinov, Bulgarian politician (1867-1938)
- Aleksandar Shalamanov, Bulgarian footballer (1941–2021)
- Aleksandar Pantić, association football player
- Aleksandar Nikolić, basketball player and coach (1924–2000)
- Aleksandar Kostov, Bulgarian footballer (1938-2019)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.