Alexandra
Alexandra places #237 across the country in 2025, drifting down from its high. On the books since 1894, peaking in 1993: 245,451 American children so far.
Alexandra’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Alexandra, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Alexandra since 1894
Alexandra peaked in 1993 at #28; #237 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Alexandra is most common
By share of a state's recorded girls' names, Alexandra runs strongest in District of Columbia at 0.4% in 2025, then Rhode Island and New Hampshire.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Alexandra
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Alejandro
#195 in 2025 · Teutonic
Alexander
#30 in 2025 · Greek
Andrea
#235 in 2025 · Greek
Alex
#232 in 2025
Ana
#245 in 2025 · Hebrew
Andres
#200 in 2025 · Greek
Ashton
#197 in 2025
Katherine
#186 in 2025 · Greek
Browse: names starting with A · all names
About Alexandra
How common is Alexandra today?
Alexandra places #237 across the country in 2025, drifting down from its high. The chart above draws the whole run since 1894, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
What is the recorded meaning of Alexandra?
Alexandra postdates the reference we are able to quote, so no meaning is shown; the popularity record above is the fact this page can stand on.
Is there a sibling name for Alexandra?
By our fixed recipe the closest are Alejandro, Alexander and Andrea, scored on origin, era, shape and how common they are. The sibling matcher runs the same recipe against the names already in your house.
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