Alejandro

At the 2020 census, 7,798 Americans bore the surname Alejandro — 4,409th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 38,300.

By the numbers

People: 7,798
Rank: 4,409th
How common: 1 in 38,300
Per 100,000: 2.6

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.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Alejandro described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 81.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 11.0%
White, not Hispanic 5.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Alejandro

Kevin Alejandro (born 1976)American actor and film director
Rauw Alejandro (born 1993)Puerto Rican singer and songwriter

People named Alejandro with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Alejandro

Also a first name

Alejandro has been given to 147,470 American babies as a first name since 1885, peaking in 2001. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.