Primarily a boy's name · 99% boys
Origin: LatinAlexander is a masculine name of Greek origin. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history.
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In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Alexander yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
Alexander's slide is one of the sharpest of any established name in this range — down 51% over the past decade — after dropping from a peak position of #4, its best ever, held in 2009, all the way to #27 by 2024. Its raw-count peak came earlier still, 20,529 births in 1993, meaning the name has now been declining in some form for roughly three decades.
It's been recorded since 1880 and carries a total of 733,348 US births, a large historical base for a name now well outside the top 20.
The famous-bearer list is dense with 19th-century scientists and scholars — Alexander Graham Bell, Alexander von Humboldt, Alexander Fleming — a concentration of invention and discovery that few other names in this batch match, though none of it appears to have slowed the name's recent slide.
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Rank is among all boys' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | 211 | #73 |
| 1881 | 209 | #71 |
| 1882 | 225 | #79 |
| 1883 | 187 | #80 |
| 1884 | 236 | #76 |
| 1885 | 205 | #78 |
| 1886 | 206 | #83 |
| 1887 | 180 | #87 |
| 1888 | 237 | #82 |
| 1889 | 185 | #93 |
| 1890 | 202 | #85 |
| 1891 | 172 | #95 |
| 1892 | 202 | #95 |
| 1893 | 218 | #83 |
| 1894 | 199 | #95 |
| 1895 | 199 | #97 |
| 1896 | 232 | #87 |
| 1897 | 172 | #103 |
| 1898 | 180 | #106 |
| 1899 | 178 | #97 |
| 1900 | 260 | #93 |
| 1901 | 162 | #102 |
| 1902 | 216 | #93 |
| 1903 | 195 | #100 |
| 1904 | 203 | #103 |
| 1905 | 210 | #103 |
| 1906 | 204 | #105 |
| 1907 | 279 | #92 |
| 1908 | 246 | #104 |
| 1909 | 255 | #107 |
| 1910 | 324 | #101 |
| 1911 | 426 | #94 |
| 1912 | 803 | #97 |
| 1913 | 937 | #98 |
| 1914 | 1,169 | #98 |
| 1915 | 1,432 | #103 |
| 1916 | 1,584 | #99 |
| 1917 | 1,664 | #97 |
| 1918 | 1,591 | #104 |
| 1919 | 1,422 | #113 |
| 1920 | 1,474 | #117 |
| 1921 | 1,533 | #116 |
| 1922 | 1,359 | #125 |
| 1923 | 1,293 | #129 |
| 1924 | 1,381 | #129 |
| 1925 | 1,224 | #137 |
| 1926 | 1,150 | #146 |
| 1927 | 1,092 | #146 |
| 1928 | 1,048 | #152 |
| 1929 | 985 | #156 |
| 1930 | 872 | #168 |
| 1931 | 795 | #172 |
| 1932 | 774 | #178 |
| 1933 | 659 | #187 |
| 1934 | 616 | #200 |
| 1935 | 702 | #186 |
| 1936 | 613 | #200 |
| 1937 | 675 | #191 |
| 1938 | 666 | #193 |
| 1939 | 723 | #186 |
| 1940 | 760 | #188 |
| 1941 | 818 | #184 |
| 1942 | 860 | #184 |
| 1943 | 925 | #178 |
| 1944 | 864 | #183 |
| 1945 | 891 | #178 |
| 1946 | 964 | #188 |
| 1947 | 1,081 | #190 |
| 1948 | 1,130 | #183 |
| 1949 | 1,184 | #180 |
| 1950 | 1,165 | #189 |
| 1951 | 1,212 | #190 |
| 1952 | 1,284 | #186 |
| 1953 | 1,261 | #195 |
| 1954 | 1,236 | #200 |
| 1955 | 1,171 | #208 |
| 1956 | 1,234 | #211 |
| 1957 | 1,264 | #212 |
| 1958 | 1,188 | #221 |
| 1959 | 1,166 | #233 |
| 1960 | 1,198 | #232 |
| 1961 | 1,228 | #223 |
| 1962 | 1,219 | #221 |
| 1963 | 1,309 | #214 |
| 1964 | 1,291 | #212 |
| 1965 | 1,321 | #191 |
| 1966 | 1,369 | #182 |
| 1967 | 1,455 | #178 |
| 1968 | 1,773 | #154 |
| 1969 | 2,015 | #150 |
| 1970 | 2,464 | #137 |
| 1971 | 2,360 | #133 |
| 1972 | 2,118 | #129 |
| 1973 | 2,259 | #116 |
| 1974 | 2,355 | #112 |
| 1975 | 2,439 | #105 |
| 1976 | 2,444 | #107 |
| 1977 | 2,703 | #96 |
| 1978 | 2,739 | #98 |
| 1979 | 3,059 | #94 |
| 1980 | 3,280 | #91 |
| 1981 | 4,236 | #70 |
| 1982 | 4,592 | #65 |
| 1983 | 4,806 | #63 |
| 1984 | 6,492 | #54 |
| 1985 | 8,298 | #50 |
| 1986 | 10,610 | #41 |
| 1987 | 11,837 | #37 |
| 1988 | 13,338 | #34 |
| 1989 | 14,524 | #32 |
| 1990 | 16,194 | #28 |
| 1991 | 17,637 | #26 |
| 1992 | 20,069 | #23 |
| 1993 | 20,529 | #21 |
| 1994 | 20,098 | #22 |
| 1995 | 19,454 | #21 |
| 1996 | 17,964 | #22 |
| 1997 | 17,112 | #22 |
| 1998 | 17,466 | #22 |
| 1999 | 17,420 | #21 |
| 2000 | 17,290 | #20 |
| 2001 | 16,719 | #20 |
| 2002 | 17,718 | #15 |
| 2003 | 17,714 | #16 |
| 2004 | 17,925 | #15 |
| 2005 | 18,128 | #13 |
| 2006 | 18,235 | #12 |
| 2007 | 18,150 | #11 |
| 2008 | 18,710 | #6 |
| 2009 | 18,253 | #4 |
| 2010 | 16,767 | #6 |
| 2011 | 15,716 | #8 |
| 2012 | 15,257 | #9 |
| 2013 | 14,922 | #8 |
| 2014 | 15,444 | #8 |
| 2015 | 14,583 | #8 |
| 2016 | 13,445 | #11 |
| 2017 | 12,574 | #13 |
| 2018 | 12,109 | #11 |
| 2019 | 11,325 | #10 |
| 2020 | 10,262 | #10 |
| 2021 | 9,418 | #13 |
| 2022 | 8,744 | #17 |
| 2023 | 7,909 | #22 |
| 2024 | 7,517 | #27 |
