Aleksandr

#2,833 for boys in 2025, 44 births

Peak · boys
2016 · 72 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,675
since 1971

Aleksandr over time

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Rank among boys' names. Aleksandr has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201990peak #1,991, 2016boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirths
2025#2,83344
2024#2,44456
2023#2,73747
2022#3,10039
2021#2,81944
2020#2,98039
2019#2,80844
2018#2,50751
2017#2,13064
2016#1,99172
2015#2,42952
2014#2,20561
2013#2,29955
2012#2,48850
2011#2,17360
2010#2,14462
2009#2,75344
2008#2,58348
2007#2,81142
2006#2,97937
2005#2,65341
2004#3,01433
2003#3,18629
2002#3,09529
2001#2,02752
2000#2,86431
1999#2,39837
1998#2,01247
1997#2,16440
1996#2,59029
1995#2,10239
1994#2,21936
1993#3,04222
1992#2,41230
1991#2,68325
1990#2,43228
1989#4,27112
1988#4,45010
1987#4,5739
1986#4,13010
1985#4,6988
1984#5,5616
1983#4,9077
1982#5,0037
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1979#4,8427
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First appearance
1971

The first year at least five boys were named Aleksandr! It came in at #4,907, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1971–1973, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Aleksandr
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 389 spots since 2024 (#2,444#2,833)
  • 147 spots since 2020 (#2,980#2,833)
  • 404 spots since 2015 (#2,429#2,833)
Rise & fade · boys
45 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1971
  • Peaked 2016 at #1,991 (72 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 26,357
  • Highest: 1 in 26,357 boys born in 2016 were named Aleksandr (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 38,820 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 34.1% of all boys named Aleksandr (571) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s38#3,558 (1974)#4,802
1980s78#4,130 (1986)#4,636
1990s333#2,012 (1998)#2,405
2000s386#2,027 (2001)#2,797
2010s571#1,991 (2016)#2,317
2020s269#2,444 (2024)#2,819

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Aleksandr in 1990

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#2,432
28 births · 1 in 73,359 boys

Top boys' names in 1990

  1. #1Michael65,321
  2. #2Christopher52,362
  3. #3Matthew44,826
  4. #4Joshua43,237
  5. #5Daniel33,830
  6. #6David33,748
  7. #7Andrew33,673
  8. #8James32,359
  9. #9Justin30,649
  10. #10Joseph30,137
  11. #2,432Aleksandr28
More about 1990

boys

2,054,038 boys got a published name in 1990; 1 in 73,359 of them was named Aleksandr, which outranked 74.4% of the 9,493 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 19.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Aleksandr
  1. #2,373Tarell29
  2. #2,373Tramell29
  3. #2,373Tyrek29
  4. #2,432Aleksandr28
  5. #2,432Abran28
  6. #2,432Alix28
  7. #2,432Antonios28
  8. #2,488Adolph27
  9. #2,488Alexi27
  10. #2,488Amy27

Tied with 55 names at #2,432; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1989
Risers
  1. 3,636Tevin#4,017#381
  2. 3,283Keenen#4,271#988
  3. 1,325Male#2,027#702
  4. 1,032Denzel#1,476#444
  5. 598Kevon#1,476#878
Fallers
  1. 1,130Kiara#956#2,086
  2. 916Rachel#993#1,909
  3. 855Nicole#985#1,840
  4. 746Tiffany#956#1,702
  5. 681Sarah#819#1,500

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1990