Alejandra

Where Alejandra comes from

Borrowed from Spanish Alejandra. Doublet of Alexandra.
— Wiktionary's entry for Alejandra
  • Spanish
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1900
    First appearance
    #1,723 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1936
    Alejandra Pizarnik born
    Argentinian poet
  3. 1994
    Alejandra Valencia born
    Mexican archer
  4. 1994
    Peak, #145
    2,187 babies named Alejandra — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2011
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #344.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Spanish, equivalent to English Alexandra.
Namesakes
  • Alejandra Pizarnik · Argentinian poet, 1936–1972
  • Alejandra Valencia · Mexican archer, born 1994
  • Alejandra Barros · Mexican actress, born 1971
  • Alejandra Guzmán · Mexican musician, born 1968
  • Alejandra Orozco · Mexican diver, born 1997

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.