Alexandria
The story
Alexandria is the grand feminine of Alexander, from the Greek for defender of the people, and it carries a whole ancient city in its syllables. Alexander the Great founded Alexandria in Egypt, and it became the brightest mind of the ancient world, home to the fabled Library that tried to gather every book on earth and to scholars who measured the planet and mapped the stars. So the name means both a protector and a place of endless learning. It shortens with unusual ease, to Alex, Lexi, Alexa and more, giving a child a formal name and a pocketful of everyday ones. In the United States Alexandria was strong in the 1990s and again in the 2010s. Stately, scholarly and a little bit regal, Alexandria hands a child a conqueror, a great library and one of the most flexible names a person can carry.
Alexandria 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. Alexandria peaked in the 1990s and the 2010s in nearly equal measure.
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Popularity in Brazil
191 people · the #26,287 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 1,000,000 · median age 45
Among people named Alexandria living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1970s than in any other decade.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
When you meet Alexandria
Most people given the name Alexandria in the United States were born between 1990 and 2009. The Alexandria 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 Alexandria deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Alexandria 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 Alexandria fits with your family’s names and surname.
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