# Aleksandr (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/aleksandr/  
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 | Russian |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 1,675 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,675 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 276, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Russian Алекса́ндр (Aleksándr).

## 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 | 60 | 2,173 |
| 2012 | 50 | 2,493 |
| 2013 | 55 | 2,299 |
| 2014 | 61 | 2,205 |
| 2015 | 52 | 2,429 |
| 2016 | 72 | 1,992 |
| 2017 | 64 | 2,131 |
| 2018 | 51 | 2,508 |
| 2019 | 44 | 2,809 |
| 2020 | 39 | 2,981 |
| 2021 | 44 | 2,820 |
| 2022 | 39 | 3,101 |
| 2023 | 47 | 2,737 |
| 2024 | 56 | 2,444 |
| 2025 | 44 | 2,837 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 12 | 1,788 |
| 2012 | 24 | 1,119 |
| 2013 | 25 | 1,063 |
| 2014 | 22 | 1,178 |
| 2015 | 23 | 1,159 |
| 2016 | 14 | 1,704 |
| 2017 | 10 | 2,172 |
| 2018 | 13 | 1,786 |
| 2019 | 7 | 2,728 |
| 2020 | 8 | 2,404 |
| 2021 | 14 | 1,688 |
| 2022 | 5 | 3,449 |
| 2023 | 12 | 1,906 |
| 2024 | 8 | 2,671 |
| 2025 | 9 | 2,440 |

## People named Aleksandr

- Aleksandr Medved, Belarusian Soviet wrestler (1937—2024)
- Aleksandr Panayotov Aleksandrov, Bulgarian cosmonaut
- Aleksandr Baryshnikov, athletics competitor (1948–2024)
- Aleksandr Aksinin, athletics competitor (1954-2020)
- Aleksandr Dmitrijev, Estonian-Russian association football player (born 1982)
- Aleksandr Lebziak, boxer
- Aleksandr Alov, film director (1923–1983)
- Aleksandr Puchkov, athletics competitor (1957–2024)
- Aleksandr Karshakevich, Belarusian handball player
- Aleksandr Kostoglod, Canoe racer
- Aleksandr Razumny, film director, screenwriter (1891–1972)
- Aleksandr Bednov, Assassinated rebel commander of the LPR

## 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.