# Alessandra (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/alessandra/  
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 | girls |
| Origin | Italian |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 24,836 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 24,836 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 632, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Italian Alessandra.

## 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, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 792 | 398 |
| 2012 | 923 | 344 |
| 2013 | 1,065 | 301 |
| 2014 | 1,082 | 301 |
| 2015 | 1,141 | 276 |
| 2016 | 1,070 | 305 |
| 2017 | 1,036 | 315 |
| 2018 | 1,009 | 324 |
| 2019 | 1,003 | 320 |
| 2020 | 843 | 368 |
| 2021 | 789 | 403 |
| 2022 | 822 | 380 |
| 2023 | 788 | 390 |
| 2024 | 724 | 426 |
| 2025 | 697 | 443 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 22 | 1,374 |
| 2012 | 24 | 1,342 |
| 2013 | 42 | 882 |
| 2014 | 14 | 1,966 |
| 2015 | 15 | 1,865 |
| 2016 | 33 | 1,057 |
| 2017 | 27 | 1,258 |
| 2018 | 26 | 1,272 |
| 2019 | 10 | 2,458 |
| 2020 | 25 | 1,267 |
| 2021 | 13 | 2,073 |
| 2022 | 16 | 1,767 |
| 2023 | 20 | 1,525 |
| 2024 | 14 | 2,000 |
| 2025 | 18 | 1,639 |

## People named Alessandra

- Alessandra Ambrosio, Brazilian model
- Alessandra Torresani, American actress
- Alessandra Negrini, Brazilian actress
- Flávia Alessandra, Brazilian actress
- Alessandra Korap Silva Munduruku, Brazilian Indigenous leader and activist
- Alessandra Acciai, Film and television actress
- Alessandra Santos de Oliveira, Brazilian basketball player (born 1973)
- Alessandra Macinghi, 15th-century Italian Renaissance writer
- Alessandra Resende, Brazilian javelin thrower
- Alessandra Sanguinetti, Argentinian photographer (born 1968)
- Alessandra Sublet, French TV and radio personality, writer

## 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.