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How popular is the name Alexandra?

Births per year, rank history and how many Alexandras are alive today.

Alexandra (female) sits just outside the top 100 girls' names in England and Wales, ranked 231st in 2025 with 202 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 1996, when 1,595 babies were given the name, the 38th most popular that year. It has declined since 1996; the 2025 figure is roughly 13% of its peak. Numbers have been falling in recent years. At least 37,000 babies have been named Alexandra in England and Wales since 1974. Figures before 1996 are estimates. Alexandra is one spelling of a name also recorded as Aleksandra; the combined figures below cover every spelling. Common short forms of Alexandra include Sandra, Lexi and Lexie.

Across all spellings of the name, the Alexandra you are most likely to meet is around 31 years old. Half of all Alexandras born in England and Wales are between 19 and 38, and there are at least 41,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 12% chance that at least one of them will be called Alexandra.

How many babies are named Alexandra each year?

Includes all spellings: Alexandra, Aleksandra. Figures before 1996 are estimates.

Where does the Alexandra spelling rank?

Where does the Aleksandra spelling rank?

Where this data comes from

Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.

One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.