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How popular is the name Alessandro?

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

Alessandro (male) is an uncommon boys' name in England and Wales, ranked 873rd in 2025 with 36 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2009, when 71 babies were given the name, the 494th most popular that year. It was almost as popular in 2019, with 67 babies given the name that year. Numbers have been falling in recent years.

The Alessandro you are most likely to meet is around 6 years old. Half of all Alessandros born in England and Wales are between 9 and 26, and there are at least 1,800 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Alessandro - on average, only one in every 169 such rooms contains a Alessandro.

How many babies are named Alessandro each year?

Where does Alessandro rank among boys' names?

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.