Alexandria
Alexandria is a girl's name that peaked in 1993, when it was the 69th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 474th. About 102,000 Alexandrias are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 27.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Alexandria boys named Alexandria
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 104,778
- Estimated living today
- 102,000
- Median age today
- 27
- Peak year
- 1993
- Best rank
- 69th
- Rank in 2025
- 474th
- First recorded
- 1902
- Girls / boys
- 104,548 / 230
How old the living Alexandrias are
born that year still alive today
Of the 104,778 babies given the name since 1902, about 102,000 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 22,000 of them are children and 620 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1998 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 Ancient Greek
From Middle English Alexandria, from Old English Alexandria, from Latin Alexandrīa, from Ancient Greek Ἀλεξάνδρεια, from Ἀλέξανδρος (“Alexander”) + -εια (“-ia: forming place names”), initially chiefly places founded by Alexander the Great of Macedonia and subsequently usually with reference to Alexandria in Egypt, a major Hellenistic cultural center, center of early Christianity, and continuing major international port. Compare Antioch, Seleucia, and Ptolemais.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Alexandrias
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (born 1989)American politician
- Alexandria Villaseñor (born 2005)American climate activist
- Alexandria Mills (born 1992)American model and Miss World 2010
- Alexandria Loutitt (born 2004)Canadian ski jumper
- Alexandria Anderson (born 1987)American sprinter
- Alexandria Perkins (born 2000)Australian swimmer
People named Alexandria with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Alexandria is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Alexandria is most concentrated in Nevada (2.4×), Alaska (1.9×), Arizona (1.7×), New Mexico (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1993
The most popular girls’ names the year Alexandria peaked:
Alexandria elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Alexandria | 1,318 | 317th |
| Scotland girls | Alexandria | 341 | 247th |
| Ireland girls | Alexandria | 153 | 367th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Alexandria | 57 | 230th |
| France girls | Alexandria | 25 | 7,648th |
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.
Alexandria 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 girls | Alexandria | 22 | 96 |
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.
Related names
Alexandria 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.