Alejandra
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Meaning
the Spanish form of Alexandra, the feminine of Alexander, with the inherited meaning "defender of men"
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The story
Alejandra is the Spanish form of Alexandra, the feminine of Alexander. Its older Greek roots combine words for defending and man, usually expressed as "defender of men" or "defender of people". Alexandra was already used in Greek antiquity. The wider family later spread partly through Alexander the Great’s fame and the stories told about him, though that history does not supply a date for the Spanish form.
Argentine poet Alejandra Pizarnik gives this particular form a literary history of its own. She published her first poetry collection at nineteen. Her book Los trabajos y las noches, a title meaning "The Works and the Nights", was published in 1965 and won a municipal poetry prize. Her biographer Cristina Piña describes the intense care Pizarnik gave to language.
Piña remembers discovering that book in a secondhand shop when she was eighteen. She read poems standing there, then began searching for Pizarnik’s other books.
In Spanish, Alejandra has four syllables, and Ale is a documented short form. Its American use increased strongly toward the end of the twentieth century before declining across the following completed decades.
Alejandra across languages
One shared root links 18 names across 7 languages.
Shared root: from Greek Alexandros, "defender of men"; Alexander the Great’s fame and medieval stories helped spread the name in Europe
The constellation
14 more branches of this family
How popular is Alejandra around the world?
In the United States, 3,129 babies were named Alejandra between 2020 and 2025. In Mexico City, there were 300 registrations of Alejandra in 2022.
Alejandra is on the official records of the United States, Mexico City, Spain, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Chile, Montevideo, Austria, England and Wales and Brazil.
United States
1 in 7,000
In the United States, 3,129 babies were named Alejandra between 2020 and 2025.
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Alejandra peaked in the 1990s and the 2010s in nearly equal measure.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
Mexico City City
1 in 390
In Mexico City, there were 300 registrations of Alejandra in 2022.
share of that year’s registrations in the city
Civil-registry acts in Mexico City by registration year. Counts are lower bounds (names under 6 in a month and borough are removed at source) and count name-instances, not people; compound names are split, so “Maria Jose” counts under each part. 2023 (17 registrations through 3 Mar) is excluded as partial. Source: Registro Civil of Mexico City, open data portal, registered given names 2000-2023
Spain
1 in 760
In Spain, 59,274 residents are named Alejandra, the 82nd most common name among women, with a mean age of 25.8 years.
In Spain, Alejandra was the 31st most common name among girls born in 2024.
Residents of Spain on 1 January 2025. Spain publishes how old a name’s living bearers are, not a birth series, so there is no year chart. Source: INE (Spain), Censo de Población anual, 1 January 2025
Argentina
1 in 1,300
In Argentina, 508 newborns were given the name Alejandra in 2024.
share of that year’s name registrations
Given-name components of births in Argentina 2012–2024; national cells are lower bounds and no sex split is published. Source: RENAPER (Argentina), Dirección Nacional de Población, given names 2012-2024
Puerto Rico
1 in 2,000
In Puerto Rico, 9 babies were named Alejandra in 2025, and 2,032 have carried the name since 1998.
share of that year’s births on record
First given name only, from Social Security records of births in Puerto Rico; any name-sex-year under 5 births is withheld at source. Shares divide by the Puerto Rico Demographic Registry’s count of births on the island; the 2025 count is provisional. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, territory name file (Puerto Rico)
Chile
1 in 2,000
In Chile, 87 girls were registered as Alejandra in 2021, every accent spelling counted together.
share of that year’s name registrations
First-name registrations with Chile’s civil registry by year of registration, 1920–2021, counted as spelling groups (Sofía, Sofia and Sofìa are one name, shown with its most-registered spelling); the registry withholds nothing, nametree keeps the groups that reached 5 registrations in some year, and shares divide by every registration of the year. Source: Servicio de Registro Civil e Identificación (Chile) via the guaguas package, first-name registrations 1920-2021
Montevideo City
1 in 4,9002011
In Montevideo, 5 girls named Alejandra were born in 2011, spelling variants counted together.
share of that year’s births on record
Births in the department of Montevideo (not all of Uruguay) by first name and year of birth, 1940–2011, from the city’s civil registry, which writes names in capitals, almost always without accents; counted as spelling groups (accent and punctuation variants merged), nothing is withheld at source, and 2012 is excluded as a partial year. Source: Servicio de Registro Civil, Intendencia de Montevideo, Partidas de Registro Civil de Montevideo (Licencia de Datos Abiertos - Uruguay); 2012 dropped as partial
Austria
1 in 38,000
In Austria, 2 girls named Alejandra were born in 2025, ranked 1,305th among girls that year, spellings that differ only by special characters counted together.
The count never rose above 2 in a year, too few to chart.
Live births in Austria by year of birth, 1984–2025, from Statistik Austria’s first-name statistics; spellings that differ only by special characters are counted together (umlauts stay apart), every name down to a single birth is published, and the count covers babies with Austrian citizenship only until 2009, every baby from 2010, and from 2015 also births abroad to mothers living in Austria. Shares divide by Statistik Austria’s count of live births from 2010, and before that by the file’s own total for the year. Source: Statistik Austria - data.statistik.gv.at (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1, updated 2026-07-09)
England and Wales
1 in 98,000
In England and Wales, 6 girls named Alejandra were born in 2025, ranked 3,705th among girls that year.
The count never rose above 9 in a year, too few to chart.
Birth registrations in England and Wales (not the whole UK); exact spellings are counted separately, and any spelling under 3 in a year is withheld at source. Source: Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales
Brazil
1 in 120,000
At the 2022 census, 1,710 people in Brazil were named Alejandra, ranked 5,710th, with a median age of 17.
Among people named Alejandra living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 2010s than in any other decade.
people alive at the 2022 census, by decade of birth
The census also counted 102 born between 2020 and August 2022, too recent a span to chart. People alive and resident in Brazil at the 2022 census, a living-population count, not births; names under 20 are withheld at source. Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
Canada
last on record 2023
Alejandra is not on the 2024 record for Canada, where names under 5 in a year are excluded at source.
share of that year’s name registrations
First given names from provincial and territorial vital statistics across Canada; any name-sex-year under 5 is excluded at source, and small Quebec counts carry a randomized adjustment made at source. Shares divide by Statistics Canada’s count of live births for the year; the 2024 count is preliminary. Source: Statistics Canada, first names at birth (table 17-10-0147-01)
Ireland
last on record 2017
Alejandra is not on the 2025 record for Ireland, where names under 3 in a year are withheld at source.
The count never rose above 3 in a year, too few to chart.
Exact registered spellings from Irish vital statistics; any name under 3 in a year is withheld at source, and accented spellings (fadas) are recorded reliably only from 2018. Source: Central Statistics Office (Ireland), Irish babies' names
South Australia
last on record 2014
Alejandra is not on the 2017 record for South Australia, whose registry publishes every name given that year.
The count never rose above 1 in a year, too few to chart.
Births registered in South Australia (not all of Australia) by first name and year of registration, 1944–2017, from the state’s Births, Deaths and Marriages registry, which publishes every name down to a single birth in capitals; a spelling its export repeats inside a year is counted once, and from 2018 only a top 100 is published, so the series ends at 2017. Source: Consumer and Business Services (South Australia), popular baby names
Not on the record in New Zealand, Scotland and Poland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.
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.
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