Alexandru
#8,243 for boys in 2025, 9 births
- Peak · boys
- 2006 · 34 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 614since 1981
Alexandru over time
Rank among boys' names. Alexandru has never cracked the top 3,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,243 | 9 |
| 2024 | #12,349 | 5 |
| 2023 | #8,921 | 8 |
| 2022 | #8,990 | 8 |
| 2021 | #6,698 | 12 |
| 2020 | #6,296 | 13 |
| 2019 | #5,340 | 17 |
| 2018 | #4,610 | 21 |
| 2017 | #4,594 | 21 |
| 2016 | #4,776 | 20 |
| 2015 | #3,982 | 26 |
| 2014 | #3,297 | 33 |
| 2013 | #4,463 | 21 |
| 2012 | #3,894 | 26 |
| 2011 | #3,695 | 28 |
| 2010 | #5,047 | 18 |
| 2009 | #3,399 | 32 |
| 2008 | #4,714 | 20 |
| 2007 | #3,313 | 33 |
| 2006 | #3,153 | 34 |
| 2005 | #4,062 | 22 |
| 2004 | #3,534 | 26 |
| 2003 | #4,114 | 20 |
| 2002 | #4,322 | 18 |
| 2001 | #3,721 | 22 |
| 2000 | #4,573 | 16 |
| 1999 | #5,035 | 13 |
| 1998 | #4,019 | 17 |
| 1997 | #5,642 | 10 |
| 1996 | #9,015 | 5 |
| 1995 | #8,868 | 5 |
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| 1993 | #6,816 | 7 |
| 1992 | #6,128 | 8 |
| 1991 | #8,236 | 5 |
| 1990 | #8,117 | 5 |
| 1989 | #7,905 | 5 |
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| 1981 | #6,262 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Alexandru! It came in at #6,262, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1981–1991, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Alexandru
- 4,106 spots since 2024 (#12,349 → #8,243)
- 1,947 spots since 2020 (#6,296 → #8,243)
- 4,261 spots since 2015 (#3,982 → #8,243)
- Debuted 1981
- Peaked 2006 at #3,153 (34 births)
- Births halved by 2019, 13 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 58,208 boys born in 2014 were named Alexandru (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 189,786 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #3,153 in 2006, was only 1 in 60,449 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 39.6% of all boys named Alexandru (243) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 10 | #6,262 (1981) | #7,084 |
| 1990s | 75 | #4,019 (1998) | #6,875 |
| 2000s | 243 | #3,153 (2006) | #3,891 |
| 2010s | 231 | #3,297 (2014) | #4,370 |
| 2020s | 55 | #6,296 (2020) | #8,583 |
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.
Alexandru in 1981
Top boys' names in 1981
More about 1981
boys
1,791,177 boys got a published name in 1981; 1 in 358,235 of them was named Alexandru, which outranked 14.1% of the 7,289 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,027 names at #6,262; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.