Alejandro
The boy's name Alejandro has been in the national records since 1885, with 147,470 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 195th. About 140,000 Alejandros are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 24.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Alejandro boys named Alejandro
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 147,470
- Estimated living today
- 140,000
- Median age today
- 24
- Peak year
- 2001
- Best rank
- 88th
- Rank in 2025
- 195th
- First recorded
- 1885
- Girls / boys
- 846 / 146,624
How old the living Alejandros are
born that year still alive today
Of the 147,470 babies given the name since 1885, about 140,000 are alive — 95 in every hundred. Roughly 44,000 of them are children and 1,900 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2001 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Spanish
from Ancient Greek Ἀλέξανδρος, an epithet of the goddess Hera.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Alejandros
- Alejandro González Iñárritu (born 1963)Mexican film director
- Alejandro Jodorowsky (born 1929)Chilean-French filmmaker and comics writer
- Alejandro Toledo (born 1945)President of Peru from 2001 to 2006
- Alejandro Balde (born 2003)Spanish-Dominican association football player
- Alejandro Amenábar (born 1972)Spanish-Chilean film director, screenwriter and composer
- Alejandro Garnacho (born 2004)Spanish-Argentine association football player
- Alejandro Sabella (1954–2020)Argentine association football player and manager
- Alejandro Sanz (born 1968)Spanish pop musician
People named Alejandro with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Alejandro is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Alejandro is most concentrated in Arizona (3.5×), California (3.3×), Nevada (3.1×), Texas (3.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2001
The most popular boys’ names the year Alejandro peaked:
Alejandro elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spain boys | Alejandro | 111,295 | 1st |
| Italy boys | Alejandro | 757 | — |
| France boys | Alejandro | 755 | 1,048th |
| England and Wales boys | Alejandro | 717 | 765th |
| Switzerland boys | Alejandro | 547 | 193rd |
| Belgium boys | Alejandro | 520 | 315th |
| Norway boys | Alejandro | 172 | 370th |
| Poland boys | Alejandro | 91 birth registrations | 314th |
| Ireland boys | Alejandro | 43 | 448th |
| Scotland boys | Alejandro | 17 | 535th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Alejandro: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Alejandro | 414 | 0.033% | 187th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Alejandro | 111 | 0.026% | 181st |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Alejandro | 21 | 0.032% | 93rd |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Alejandro | 1 | 0.027% | 15th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Alejandro is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.05% of children were given it – 153 of them.
Alejandro: rank by region
In 2025, Alejandro was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Alejandro | 642 | 8 |
| Wallonia | Alejandro | 461 | 5 |
In 2024, Alejandro was among the 10 most common names in 7 regions of Spain. It has come first somewhere in 13 different years.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Andalucía | Alejandro | 2 | 684 |
| Aragón | Alejandro | 7 | 67 |
| Castilla - La Mancha | Alejandro | 3 | 149 |
| Extremadura | Alejandro | 6 | 72 |
| Comunidad de Madrid | Alejandro | 3 | 446 |
| Región de Murcia | Alejandro | 6 | 102 |
| La Rioja | Alejandro | 9 | 14 |
In 2018, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Alejandro appears in the lists for Province of Hainaut (127th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Alejandro by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 7 | 532nd |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Alejandro among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Alejandro | 43 | 191 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Alejandro lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 273,491 men called Alejandro were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cádiz | Alejandro | 10,181 | 16.405 | 11 |
| Sevilla | Alejandro | 15,712 | 16.295 | 11 |
| Granada | Alejandro | 7,049 | 15.161 | 10 |
| Málaga | Alejandro | 12,959 | 14.816 | 9 |
| Huelva | Alejandro | 3,879 | 14.508 | 11 |
| Madrid | Alejandro | 48,778 | 14.315 | 7 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Alejandro against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.