Alejandra
The story
Alejandra is the Spanish form of Alexandra, itself the feminine form of Alexander, a lineage the reference books spell out in exactly those two steps. For one American decade it was everywhere: 19,011 girls across the 1990s, after climbing from 411 in the 1960s to 5,561 in the 1980s. The 2000s held 15,544; the 2010s eased to 7,593; 3,124 so far this decade. That is not a fading name so much as a finished chapter of the record, and the name now sits where Spanish classics sit between waves. Brazil's 2022 census counts 1,710 residents with a median age of seventeen, a younger echo of the same arc. Five flowing syllables, with Ale and Alex on file as its short forms. Alexander conquered on horseback; Alejandra did it in the 1990s, on birth certificates, nineteen thousand strong.
Alejandra around the world
One shared root links 18 names across 7 languages.
Shared root: from Greek Alexandros "defender of men" (alexein "to ward off" + aner "man"), spread from Macedon into every European tradition
The constellation
14 more branches of this family
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Alejandra peaked in the 1990s and the 2010s in nearly equal measure.
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Popularity in Brazil
1,710 people · the #5,710 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 125,000 · median age 17
Among people named Alejandra living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 2010s than in any other decade.
The census also counted 102 born between 2020 and August 2022, too recent a span to chart.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
When you meet Alejandra
Most people given the name Alejandra in the United States were born between 1990 and 2009. The Alejandra you meet today is most often in her 20s or 30s.
Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.
The Alejandra deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Alejandra truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Alejandra fits with your family’s names and surname.
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